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Winter 2006

Volume 7, Number 2

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning From Rice to Boyer to Shulman: How a Movement Might Change Everything by Tom Ott

Keep Them Coming Back! Strategies to Improve Student Retention by Sandra Tanner

The Myth of Total Retention by Gregory Bovasso

Building a Better Mousetrap: The Debate About Rubrics by Madeline Marcotte

Fall 2005

Volume 7, Number 1

The End of Disarticulation by Martin Spear

Teaching Heart: Active and Collaborative Learning in the Developmental Writing Classroom by Rosemary McAndrew

Colleagues Explore How to Increase At-risk Student Persistence, Success by Kathy Mulray, Dawn Sinnott and Mike Remshard

Reading Workshops or Traditional Lab Classes by Anne Francis

Research Challenges Us to Reframe Ideas About Best Teaching Practices. Review of Teaching on Solid Ground: Using Scholarship to Improve Practice edited by Robert Menges, Maryellen Weimer and Associates. by Joan Monroe

Learning Stages Linked to Model of Human Development. Review of Becoming Adult Learners: Principles and Practices for Effective Development by Eleanor Drago-Stevenson. by Jay Howard

Spring 2005

Volume 6, Number 3

A Way to Improve Teaching/Learning Partneship with Values and Respect by Marcia Epstein

Another Way to Improve Teaching/Learning Partneship with Values and Respect by Vince Castronuovo

Should Students' Language Needs Influence How We Teach? by Charito Aglaua

Reflections on Recent Reading Research by Jay Howard

History and Trends Lend Perspective to Grammar Rules. Review of Breaking the Rules: Liberating WRiters through Innovative Grammar Instruction by Edgar H. Schuster. by Jay Howard

Abandoning Elitism, Creating Community by Matt Desiderio

How Teachers Can Encourage Creativity in Writing Classes by Luba Borochok

Winter 2005

Volume 6, Number 2

Getting Students in on the Real Conversations of the Academic World by Evan Seymour

A Center for Writing Launched at Community College of Philadelphia by John Nace

Recent Survey Asks, How Connected Are Students to Current Technology? by Gail Chaskes, Lilla Hudoba, Geoff Schulz, Jay Howard

How We Can Help When Students' Mental Health Affects Academic Efforts by Theresa Tsai

English Tutoring Online Is Finding Its Own Level by Jay Howard

Disturb the Disquieting Quiet by Alan Elyshevitz

Fall 2004

Volume 6, Number 1

Community College of Philadelphia Inaugurates New Program to Explore Scholarship of Teaching and Learning by Tom Ott

Attempting to Replace the 5-Paragraph Theme by Evan Seymour

College Institutes Progress Policy for A-level by Tom Ott

Identifying Students with Learning Disabilities by Theresa Tsai, Joan Monroe, and Marlene Koestenblatt

Re-Awakening Reading Awareness by Jay Howard

"Stickler" Examines Use and Misuse of English Grammar. Review of Eats Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss by Jay Howard

Spring 2004

Volume 5, Number 3

The Writing Teacher in Search of a Stance: ESL Students in College Composition by Frances Blake, Ramon Diaz, Steve Jones, and Girija Nagaswami

Collaborative Model Measures Students' Performance, Growth and Shapes Students' Aesthetics by Karen Aumann, Terry Peterson, Jeff Reed, and Bill Woods, with Jay Howard

The LEAPS Programme: Widening Access to Higher Education in Scotland by Ged Lerpiniere

Possibilities and Purposes for Reading Texts Aloud by Charlene Leaver

Linking Essays to Problem-Solving. Review of Critical Passages: Teaching the Transition to College Composition by Kristen Dombek and Scott Herndon by Dianne Perkins

Green Eggs and the 500 Word Theme by Tom Ott

College-wide Support, Faculty Collaborations Promote Research, Analysis Skills for Students at All Levels by Rosemary McAndrew, with Barbara Spadaro

Winter 2004

Volume 5, Number 2

Community College of Philadelphia Joins Oxford/Emory to Explore Links Between "Affective Talents" and Cognitive Performance by Tom Ott

Instructors' Practices Do Add Up to Scholarship in the Classroom by Neil R. Wells

Synchronicity in Distance Ed: Interactive Boon or a Case of the Emporer's New Clothes? by Dave Freeman

Some Reflections on the Five-Paragraph Essay by Barbara Spadaro

In Recipes and Writing, Rules Are Not Arbirary by Tom Ott

Teaching Circles Provide Support, Develop Dialogue by Sharon Rees Eiferman

One Teacher's Reflections on the Rewards and Tensions of a Teaching Circle by Grace Flisser

Awakening Teachers' Reading Awareness by Jay Howard

Creating a Context for the Writing Assignment by Charito Aglaua

An Instructive Collection for College Reading Teachers. Review of College Reading Research and Practice: Articles from The Journal of College Literacy and Reading edited by Paulson, Laine, Biggs, and Bullock by Jay Howard

Fall 2003

Volume 5, Number 1

Note from the Editors

What Is "Good" Assessment? by Linda Suskie

A Blight to the Profession, a Danger to Students by Evan Seymour

Speaking Out About Reading Out Loud by Jay Howard

Critical Questions About Audience and Purpose, the Real Core of the Scholarship of Teaching by Tom Ott

How Attitudes, Resources Affect the Value of Literacy. Review of Literacy in American Lives by Deborah Brandt by Jay Howard

Call for Proposals - PADE Conference

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