This second year of the faculty technology study is situated in the middle of what is surely one of the most dynamic decades in the history of higher education. Colleges and universities are monitoring or actively participating in some remarkable tectonic changes, including new technologies, new models for teaching and learning, and even new…

This report summarizes the results of the Newark, New Jersey, Striving Readers program for project Years 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. This report updates one analysis (3 years); the remainder of the impacts and implementation findings are for Year 4. The Striving Readers Grant addresses the unmet needs of middle school students reading 2 or more years below…

This study considered the ability of small groups of students aged 13-15 years to structure and argue an evidentiary case in which the limitations of the evidence are recognized. The findings of this study indicate that these student groups had developed some of the characteristics of argumentation and group process skills used in building and…