Actually I think I can "sell" Understood Betsy to this class. We have a Montessori Program at my school and so the buy-in would be there. I need to re-read it first. It's been a decade or so, lol.

I may add it to the online version of my course. (Which is necessarily different from the aggressively hands-on live version that I run). I think it would be a good replacement for a lot of my lecture comments I would typically make in the live class.

My 8 am comp class this morning. "Let's review fallacies before beginning our Argument Paper." Blank stares... "Who knows what I mean by fallacies?" "Okay! Let's learn about fallacies this morning." <Takes big swig of coffee.> ETA- I'm heckling a bit about where I work. Our graduates do really, really well. We have a dismal second year return rate, though. I call it "predatory admissions". We offer a lot of support and resources and are on the USN&WR rankings for socio mobility as a result, but sometimes I question course placement.

Math for ed majors is a class that we needed to offer regular peer tutoring session. I think some of it is that the material is presented in a way that's more difficult than it needs to be, but yes, there are a lot of very weak math students in El Ed.

Yep. I'm faculty at one of the schools where they end up when our state flagship waitlists...then rejects them. I'd say that's half of our CS kids. The other half are there to play D3 sports. I've got a kid in one of my classes right now who was waitlisted at Havard until the last minute and several who were turned down at big state schools.

To be fair... my class had the prereqs dropped for it so they could fill the schedules for the students who can't past the benchmarks to get to Junior year (test score + GPA). I do have one student whose favorite book is Alice in Wonderland. My freshman comp class is also a mixed bag. Of course, good students generally come in with that credit done. What shocks me with that class is how much they overestimate their skill level. I'm not teaching any classes in the spring semester (I'm technically faculty, but semester long classes are an overload for me) and maybe that's okay.

Thanks all. I'll look through these. I'm trying to balance the number pages (thanks, Lori) with language that isn't too archaic (they are struggling with Blue Fairy Book selections a little), and things they haven't already read.

I just noticed Boxcar Children this week. ETA- also at Gutenberg.

Yes, all pretty good choices. These aren't open copyright, unfortunately, and not available as set from my state library. I would need to come up with 12 copies since the semester has already started.

Sorry I moved the thread! I am using Aesop already. I struck out with Elson... but I think I was looking at the Grade 3 reader. I'll go back and see. I need to re-look at Just So Stories. They are struggling with my Blue Fairy Book selections. Thanks!

I'm teaching a college-level class on children's literature. I'm using selections from Blue Fairy Book, Tales from Shakespeare, Aesop's Fables, Reluctant Dragon, and the Poetry Foundation. I need one or two more short stories or a short book. I'd prefer it to be freely available and roughly 3rd grade level. My brain is fried. I had Brown Girl Dreaming in the slot, but for various reasons it's not going to work. Turns out students in college for Elementary Education are not great readers. Good students who like children, yes. Readers, no. Any suggestions are appreciated!

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Moving this to General Ed board.

This made me laugh. Terre Haute isn't Chicago, but it is, by definition, a city. The campus is definitely on the edge in something of a suburban area, but students are 6 minutes from most anything they need. I used to live close to NYC, so I get what you mean- and also used to live in a county with less than a dozen stoplights. That's in the country.

Purdue Admitted Student Day for Engineering they said around 32% for Engineering and around 29% for CS.

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This is two maintenance meds. I'm super annoyed right now because I couldn't get the local pharmacy to fill it early b/c of insurance (I told them a couple different times I would pay out of pocket- both are generics). So... I spent a lot of money to have them sent "guaranteed 2 day" Fed Ex. It should have arrived yesterday. Still sitting an hour away this morning. The school's mail room is open briefly today and has it's own set of woes. I guess the automated mail boxes they just put in our out of order- all over the country. She took her last half a dose that she had left this morning.

No, unfortunately.

When I checked in 2021 Julia doesn't offer online classes anymore (or didn't have time?) She has someone else she recommended. Inga was something like $50 an hour and I think she will do a group of ones at similar level at the same time if you can put one together. ETA- I see that Inga is now listed on the website: https://bytheonionsea.com/russian-language-2/

Also, talk to CLRC. They used to offer Russian 3/4 + a conversation class, but one of the instructors was pulled to teach other things. If there is enough interest for a Russian 3 next year, they might be able to make it happen.

Our local CVS is so bad as to be unusable, and that was the only one so far I had found. I'll check out ExpressScripts. It doesn't seem to be on my insurance, but I had her also get the student insurance, so I'll see if it works through that. Of course, I could just take her a car. The bus stops just far enough outside of campus to make it unusable to students.

Is this still a thing? I just paid $$ to do 2-day shipping for her script.

I do think there is more focus on "fit" than ever before (I know we've debated what that is that here on the board fwiw). I do know a sizable handful for dd's classmates - including dd- were accepted into somewhat more "prestigious" programs, but chose where they thought they could be successful.

Another potential layer to the context is the smaller schools with good reps that aren't single digit admits. They are getting much larger freshman classes because they might have been second-choice-to-the-ivy for many of the students. My dd's school used have on-campus housing available to everyone who wanted it a couple of years ago, now it's only guaranteed for freshman and sophomores. As a small STEM school they've traditionally been able to accept mostly everyone who met their (high-bar) qualifications because their yield was low- they are more expensive (they don't aggressively discount- merit aid is pretty evenly spread out), not located in a major metropolitan area, and, well, just really hard. Their yield is just getting higher suddenly, I'm guessing it is overflow of the lower acceptances at the lottery schools. This years class of 600 comes from 40 or states states and something like 14 countries.

Mine started college in the middle of doing blood tests and has continued to have phone meetings with her NP at home. We have another layer b/c she's a minor and needs to schedule to see a specialist. She won't be home until Christmas, so I'm consider setting up her specialist appointment in a city near where she's in school and traveling there to take her. She missed her August dentist appointment, so I'm debating having her that there, too. But we didn't think she would need a car, so she doesn't have one. She also broke her glasses last week and can't get anywhere to get a new pair. I'm thinking maybe I just need to take her a car because the bus doesn't go to campus any more. I did go ahead and buy the student health insurance. We have high deducible insurance and also this covers her at school for sure.