News Briefs

American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. (2013). The changing teacher preparation profession. Washington, DC: Author.

Blansky D. Kavanaugh C. Boothroyd C. Benson B. Gallagher J. Endress J. Sayama H. (2013). Spread of academic success in a high school social network. PLoS ONE, 8(2), e55944. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0055944

Loveless T. (2013). The 2013 Brown Center Report on American Education: How well are American students learning? (Vol. 3, No. 2). Washington, DC: Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings.

Pryor J. H. Eagan K. Palucki Blake L. Hurtado S. Berdan J. Case M. H. (2012). The American freshman: National norms fall 2012. Los Angeles: Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA.

Xu D. Jaggars S. S. (2013, February). Adaptability to online learning: Differences across types of students and academic subject areas (CCRC Working Paper No. 54). New York, NY: Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University. Retrieved from http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/publications/adaptability-to-online-learning.html

Adams C. (2013). Internships help students prepare for the workplace. Education Week, 32(19), 8.

Carrell S. Sacerdote B. (2012). Late interventions matter too: The case of college coaching in New Hampshire. Retrieved from http://econ.msu.edu/seminars/docs/Carrell%20Sacerdote%20College%20Coaching%20Late%20Interventions%207.16.12.pdf

Dunlosky J. Rawson K. A. Marsh E. J. Nathan M. J. Willingham D. T. (2013). Improving students’ learning with effective learning techniques: Promising directions from cognitive and educational psychology. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 14(1), 4-58. doi:10.1177/1529100612453266

Herman J. L. Linn R. L. (2013). On the road to assessing deeper learning: The status of Smarter Balanced and PARCC assessment consortia (CRESST Report 823). Los Angeles: University of California, National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST).

National Governors Association Center for Best Practices & Council of Chief State School Officers. (2010). Common Core State Standards for English language arts and literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects Appendix A: Research supporting key elements of the standards; Glossary of key terms. Washington, DC: Authors. Retrieved from http://www.corestandards.org/assets/Appendix_A.pdf

Pellegrino J. W. Hilton M. L. (Eds.). (2012). Education for life and work: Developing transferable knowledge and skills in the 21st century. Washington, DC: National Research Council.

Rothman R. (2012). The complex matter of text complexity. Harvard Education Letter, 28(5), 1-2, 6.