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Learning About Learning
 By Diana Chapman Walsh
The need to open access to college, to be more transparent and
accountable, and to navigate difficult economic currents is undeniably
urgent. This may be a moment not only of unprecedented challenge, but
also of uncommon promise, and the question remains as to whether we can
look for abundance at a time of scarcity.
My focus is specifically on student learning, both in and beyond the
classroom—leaving aside for now the related but wider questions of
accountability, costs, access, efficiency, and effectiveness—and
learning in its broadest sense: all that we want our students to master
(values, character, efficacy, ethics, side by side with learning how to
think, write, speak, and act) and to continue to learn through a
lifetime. It's in this more expansive view of student learning that we
may find some possibilities for a hopeful turn. . . .
Excerpted from the spring 2009 issue of The
Presidency. To subscribe to the magazine, please call (301)
632-6757, or order online through ACE's
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| The Presidency, spring 2009, Learning About Learning, Diana Chapman Walsh |
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