General education is the core of the undergraduate experience. It provides a lasting foundation for lifelong learning, application, and appreciation of the various approaches to understanding individuals, cultures, and the world we live in. First-year experience programs are becoming virtually universal in colleges and universities, and first-year seminars often are integrated into general education programs to promote student retention, engagement, and success. The… More >>
Assessing General Education Programs
Bilingual Education in Elementary and Secondary School Communities: Toward Understanding and Caring
The number of immigrant and minority students who are entering school with a language other than English is growing and will continue to do so in substantial proportions well into the next millennium. To succeed in school, many of these students will require teachers who have the ability and desire to 1) teach literacy and content in the students’ native language, 2) to integrate language and content, 3) make schooling culturally relevant, and 4) take a stance again… More >>
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Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education
”Studio Thinking [is] a vision not only of learning in the arts but what could be learning most anywhere.” — From the Foreword by David N. Perkins, Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Senior Co-Director of Harvard Project Zero
”Hetland and her colleagues reveal dozens of practical measures that could be adopted by any arts program, inside or outside of the school.This is a bold new step in arts education.” — David R. Olson,… More >>
