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14 COLLEGES & GRADuate Schools ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ DECEMBER 2006Education UpdateOctober 2006 IssueP.O. #: 18032Research in Learning Disordersat Landmark Collegeby Sybil MaiminIn tandem with its mission of providing aneffective and supportive college education forstudents with learning disabilities and AttentionDeficit Hyperactivity Disorders (LD and/or AD/HD), Landmark College in Putney, Vermont has,since its inception twenty years ago, activelyresearched and disseminated knowledge andbest practices about how to serve this specialpopulation. In 2001, the LandmarkCollege Institute for Research andTraining ((LCIRT) was establishedwith ambitious goals and a first-ratestaff. The Institute conducts research(major funding comes from state,federal, and foundation grants),offers courses for professionals onand off campus and online (graduatecredit available), oversees teacherassessment and training, conductstopical non-credit workshops forteachers, parents, students, and interested others,makes conference presentations, and publishesteaching guides and monographs based on itsfindings. Its clients include public, private, andparochial schools, two and four-year colleges,and schools devoted to pupils with learning disabilitiesas well as schools with only some specialeducation students. The Institute is committed tomaking its best practices available to all.On-campus courses during the summer forthose who work with students with LD and/or AD/HD in middle, high, or post-secondaryschools include effective instruction, teachingmath, biology, writing, reading, study skills, foreignlanguages, and technology, as well as helpingschools meet students with disabilities standards.Educators can receive certification in WilsonLanguage Training, an evidence-based system ofinstruction for problem readers. In addition, manyof these courses are given online throughout theyear. Research Institute personnel also travel tohigh schools and colleges around the country withthese offerings, customized as necessary, and willeven design a new course, if required.Research initiatives have included a UniversalDesign and Usability Lab that evaluates the effectivenessand usability of websites and softwarerelated to science, technology, engineering, andmath (STEM) for people with learning disorders.Dr. Steve Fadden, director of the Institute, explainsthe goal is elimination of barriers that might stymielearning or career prospects. Another projectspecifically targets math, often key to other sciencedisciplines, for evaluationof instructional tools becauseunusable math resources wouldkeep individuals with learningproblems out of science andmath-related fields. Landmark isone of ten colleges belonging tothe STARS Alliance, a NationalScience Foundation fundedprogram to increase participationin computing careers forunderrepresented populations,such as women, minorities, and people withlearning disabilities. Explains Fadden, “Studentscan attain career goals if they learn the path togetting there, the basic building blocks.” ARIVE(Advancing Reading in Vermont) a state-fundedprogram that will be disseminated nation-wide,tackles the subject of improving literacy fordiverse learners from 4th to 12th grades. Witha “Demo Disabilities” grant, Landmark is partneringwith four other community colleges inNevada, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Vermont todevelop special materials to aid faculty and staffin educating students with learning problems.Landmark has acquired a new tool in its testingarsenal, an eye tracker that follows a reader’s eyemovements, potentially indicating the differentways people access information. This way of“quantitatively showing what is going on in thebrain,” can lead to changes in texts and websitesdesigned for diverse learners, particularly goodnews for people with LD and AD/HD. It is aproductive time for the Institute for Research andTraining, and many more exciting projects are onthe drawing board.#Dr. Steve FaddenDay School Think Tank Addresses Leadership CrisisFifty of the brightest minds in Jewish educationleadership recently participated in a twoday1 ⁄4 think tank consultation held at The Jewish5 5 ⁄8 x 7Theological Seminary in New York City on thecrisis in day school educational leadership. Thecrisis in educational leadership is being felt inboth the public and private school sector andacross religious and secular lines. The need hasbecome even more pronounced for the Jewishcommunity as the last decade has witnessed anexplosion of new Jewish day schools and theexpansion of existing day schools throughoutNorth America. A ground-breaking interdenominationalconsortium of organizations dedicated toJewish day schools in North America decided thetime was ripe to join together in addressing thisvery real crisis of leadership.Following months of preliminary work andresearch to gather best practices from the publicand private education world and the for-profit andnon-profit business sectors, a planning committeedeveloped a number of action plans, whichbecame the focus of the think tank meetings. Thegoal was to assess the feasibility of implementingthe proposed actions and/or adding new initiativesto the list.”We were delighted to be invited to participatein the group as we delved into the issues surroundingthe leadership crisis,” explained RabbiJoshua Elkin, Executive Director of Partnershipfor Excellence in Jewish Education (PEJE). “Weare just begun to address the problem and I lookat Bank Streetforward to working collaboratively with the otherparticipants to find creative solutions for identifying,cultivating, continueshiring and supporting excellentleaders for day schools across the country. 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DECEMBER 2006 ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ COLLEGES & GRADuate Schools 15In Quest for Democracy, Former Pakistan Prime MinisterBhutto Addresses Oxonian SocietyBy Emily Sherwood, Ph.D.Urging an end to the “clash of civilizations”between the West and Islam, former PrimeMinister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan, who servedintermittently from 1988 to 1996 and was ultimatelysucceeded by the military regime ofGeneral Musharraf, called for a return to democracyin her country at the Oxonian Society lastmonth.“A democratic Pakistan, freed of the repressionof the military dictatorship, would cease to be thepetri dish of the pandemic of national terrorism,”said Bhutto to a capacity crowd at the PrincetonClub. “The military dictator of today plays thewest like a fiddle over the war of terror. 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Bhutto credited Pakistan’s militaryregime with a rise in global terrorism (2001 shoebomber Richard Reid, the 2005 London subwaybombing, and the 2006 transatlantic bomb plotuncovered in London this past summer “all havefootprints going back to my country,” revealedBhutto.)The former Prime Minister argued that militarydictatorships in Pakistan have persuadedyoung men into believing that “power flowsfrom the gun, rather than from the majesty oflaw.” Political “madrasas” (schools providingfree religious education to the poor) are furtherexploiting indigent families by marketing militantliterature and spreading a message of hateagainst all non-Muslims, she said. Religiousparties that have publicly avowed their supportof Bin Laden currently control the two statesbordering Afghanistan: “Like the Hydra-headedmonster, militant groups, when banned, reemergeunder another name…Extremism has replacedmoderation in an increasingly despotic Pakistan,”concluded Bhutto, urging the international communityto tie forthcoming financial aid to ademocratically run Pakistan.The first woman ever to lead a modern Muslimnation, Prime Minister Bhutto also talked abouther own path to leadership. As a student atHarvard in the seventies, she witnessed firsthandthe feminist and civil rights movementsin America as well as “the awesome power ofthe people…to change the direction of history”during the Watergate crisis. During her graduatestudies at Oxford, she saw Britain’s conservativeparty choose Margaret Thatcher to be their firstfemale Prime Minister. Bhutto herself became thefirst female foreigner to be elected president ofthe prestigious Oxford union (“I was told that asa woman I could not win…But I did run and I didwin, and I gave up my fear of losing.”)Despite being born into a political family,Bhutto never sought a political role. “It cameCompiled by Chris RowanQuiz CornerPrime Minister Benazir Bhuttoto me through an accident of fate,” she recalled,describing how only a week after she returned toPakistan in 1977 after her schooling abroad, themilitary seized power, ousting her father, the latePakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, andlater executing him. “When he was murdered,my life changed forever,” explained Bhutto, whogave up her dream of joining the foreign service(“I had dreamt of becoming ambassador andserving in Washington and throwing better partiesthan any other ambassador”) and instead foundherself in prison for almost six years. “But I nevergame up my struggle and my commitment for ademocratic Pakistan,” she added, and in 1988 shewas sworn in as Prime Minister in the first openelection in more than a decade.Coming back from behind to do the seeminglyimpossible is what Benazir Bhutto does best.She is awaiting a return to Pakistan to run yetagain for Prime Minister in the upcoming generalelections scheduled for November 2007, and shecalled upon the US to send official observersto insure that those elections are free and fair.“Democracy is important to the empowerment ofthe people in Pakistan,” summed up the indomitablePrime Minister Bhutto to the impassionedapplause of the audience. “But democracy is alsoimportant to the message we want to send morethan one million Muslims across the world whohave to choose between the politics of the pastand the politics of the future.”#1. 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