Carnegie Foundaton - Strenthening Pre-Collegiate Education in Community Colleges

Strengthening Pre-Collegiate Education in Community Colleges (SPECC) - http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/previous-work/undergraduate-education

A multi-site action-research project (2007-2009), SPECC focused on teaching and learning in pre-collegiate mathematics and English language arts at 11 California community colleges. It was a joint project with The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Major Publications

A set of reports drawn from the work on the 11 participating campuses were produced over the final year and a half of the project by different members of the Carnegie team.
Basic Skills for Complex Lives: Designs for Learning in the Community College
 
Listening to Students About Learning
By Andrea Conklin Bueschel

The Promise of Faculty Inquiry for Teaching and Learning Basic Skills
By Mary Taylor Huber

Faculty Inquiry in Action: Guidelines for Working Together to Improve Student Learning
Strengthening Pre-collegiate Education in Community Colleges: Project Summary and Recommendations


Change and Sustain/Ability: A Program Director’s Reflections on Institutional Learning
By Rose Asera