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	Sizzling Reading to Help You through the Dog Days of Summer while Preparing for Fall In our Teaching Excellence Workshops, we mention many articles and books worth reading—or, as we like to tell our students, articles and books “worth knowing”—related to teaching and learning astronomy. We published our first Summer Reading List in 2005, revised it for Summer 2006, and added to it again to round out 2007. We’re keeping our original recommendations... More >>


		Continuing to Build Our Community through Moderation: Introducing Our New AstroLrner@CAE Guest Moderator By now I think it’s probably not a surprise to our longer-joined members that we at the Center for Astronomy Education (CAE) care deeply about community building.... More >>

		High Performance Grading: Reducing Your Time Behind the Red Pen Many of the questions we receive in our workshops revolve around assessment—more specifically, grading. How is it in a class of 200 we could possible do anything... More >>

		A World of Astronomy for a Lifetime: Involving Students in the International Year of Astronomy Past research has shown that one of the top three goals that astronomy faculty have is that our students develop a life-long interest in astronomy (Slater et al,... More >>

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		NASA's Image of the Day Gallery Poised for Flight The space shuttle Discovery is poised for liftoff on the STS-128 mission from Pad 39a at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, Aug....... Read More >>

CAE is funded through the generous contributions of the NASA JPL Exoplanet Exploration Public Engagement Program and the Spitzer Education and Public Outreach Program. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0715517, a CCLI Phase III Grant for the Collaboration of Astronomy Teaching Scholars (CATS). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.