NRCCTE staff and researchers make frequent appearances at conferences, conventions, and meetings across the United States. Visit this page to stay up to date on upcoming presentations, and don’t forget to sign up for our newsletters to be notified about forthcoming events.
The NRCCTE-affiliated researchers at the University of Minnesota who led the Center's Relative Impact study of community college retention programs are featured in the current issue of the Community College Review. "Outcome Trajectories of Developmental Students in Community Colleges" explores student outcomes related to taking developmental English (i.e., reading and/or writing) and math classes in three community colleges in three different states, using institutional data from nearly 8,000 students who began college in Fall 2009 or Fall 2010.
If you missed the 2013 meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in San Francisco this year, presentations are now online for those NRCCTE-affiliated researchers who offered papers and participated in a number of sessions and roundtables there. The conference ran from April 27 to May 1.
The NRCCTE's Director, James R. Stone III, has been cited in an April 11, 2013 article in the New York Times' Texas Tribune section entitled "Texas House Bill Proposes Dropping Algebra II From Diploma Standards." The article, by Morgan Smith, describes proposed legislation--resoundingly supported by the Texas House and now before the Texas Senate--that would eliminate Algebra II as a core diploma requirement.
In "Three Ways to Make High School Matter," Jim Stone discusses ways to change and improve the high school experience to better engage and prepare young people for an uncertain job market.
On February 27th, approximately 140 educators gathered at the South Penn campus of Moore-Norman Technology Center to hear from national and state experts about rigorous programs of study.