Linkums!

• On Monday, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching published an update on their Pathways work. There are 1,200 students enrolled in 60 sections of Statway™ across the country, and Quantway goes live in classroom beginning in January. Early student focus group results show that Statway™ is transforming the student experience.

  … We actually read an article about how we can learn math, in the statistics class—like how to grow your brain and stuff like that.  … It kind of gave me hope. It was something that we did at the beginning of this quarter. … I was like, ‘Okay, I can grow my brain.'

• The November issue of AAC&U News features Queensborough Community College’s Freshman Academies, a new enrollment strategy that integrates academics and student affairs to ensure new students get plenty of individual advising and attention.

• This week, EdWeek ran an article about overhauling the GED to make it a more effective pathway to postsecondary education. Another EdWeek article this week focused on how Kentucky is using data systems to align K-12 with postsecondary. 

• Jack Rotman blogged over the weekend about his session at the AMATYC conference on the New Life Project, complete with slides comparing the New Life curriculum with the math emporium model.
  
• CNN has a new education blog.
  

  From pre-kindergarten through college, for parents, teachers, students—and anyone who has ever been a student—Schools of Thought offers food for thought in the national conversation on education.

  Join the conversation and make sure they include community colleges and developmental education in the mix!
  
• Earlier this month, The Quick & the Ed blogged about California’s priority registration proposal. (And they included a clip from Community, which makes it an A+ post for some folks around here.)