{"id":5505,"date":"2011-04-09T08:08:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T08:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/04\/09\/links-for-2011-04-09\/"},"modified":"2011-04-09T08:08:08","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T08:08:08","slug":"links-for-2011-04-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/04\/09\/links-for-2011-04-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-04-09"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/suburbdad.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/remedial-levels.html\">Confessions of a Community College Dean: Remedial Levels<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;[T]he CCRC found that the single strongest predictor of student success that&#8217;s actually under the college&#8217;s control &#8212; so I&#8217;m ignoring gender and income of student, since we take all comers &#8212; is length of sequence. The shorter the sequence, the better they do. The worst thing you can do, from a student success perspective, is to address perceived student deficits by adding more layers of remediation. If anything, you need to prune levels. Each new level provides a new &#8216;exit point&#8217; &#8212; the goal should be to minimize the exit points.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/dean-dad\">dean-dad<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/class-war\">class-war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DnWocYKqvhw\">YouTube &#8211; TEDxWaterloo &#8211; Michael Nielsen &#8211; Open Science<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Michael&#8217;s talk about how greater openness might allow faster progress in science through Internet technologies.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/TED\">TED<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/nielsen\">nielsen<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/conferences\">conferences<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/video\">video<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/youtube\">youtube<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confessions of a Community College Dean: Remedial Levels &#8220;[T]he CCRC found that the single strongest predictor of student success that&#8217;s actually under the college&#8217;s control &#8212; so I&#8217;m ignoring gender and income of student, since we take all comers &#8212; is length of sequence. The shorter the sequence, the better they do. The worst thing&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/04\/09\/links-for-2011-04-09\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-04-09<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}