Landmark College in the News

Landmark College is a recognized authority in learning disabilities and AD/HD.

Members of the Landmark College Community are often contacted when the media is conducting interviews concerning this subject in an educational setting.

Articles

New York Times Sunday Education Life

November 6, 2011
(and “The Choice Blog (Nov. 3)
Hard Decisions for Learning Disabled – Rachel Masson discusses decisions students deal with in the admissions processhttp://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/education/edlife/hard-decisions-for-learning-disabled.html&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoATABOAFAv7_L9QRIAVgBYgVlbi1VUw&cd=L7bKpueT1HM&usg=AFQjCNGL6-WeS9RoP8sgtWAD_8v1EFsxZg>

USA Today

October 17, 2011
Feature on Landmark (with photos and video) summer program to prepare students for college. Print piece ran on front page of Life section.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2011-10-17/college-and-learning-disabilities/50807620/ 1

Chronicle of Higher Education

September 25, 2011
Students With Learning and Social Issues Have More College Options -- Marshall University and others are part of a growing trend of special programs that help students with dyslexia and other disorders.
http://chronicle.com/article/Programs-Help-Students-With/129095/?key=HmglI1EwZitHYntkYz5FMT1VOCc7ZkkkNSVCa393bl1UFg%3D%3D

NPR (WAMC) Academic Minute

nationally aired 90-second spots that also are linked in the daily newsletter, “Inside Higher Education”

Michelle Bower
October 4, 2011
How a teacher’s perception of a student’s math ability can negatively influence their actual performance http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1857783

Jim Baucom
January 28, 1011
Recommends specific study methods firmly based in research in cognitive improvement.
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1751888/Academic.Minute/Prof..Jim.Baucom..Landmark.College

Christie Herbert
November 29, 2010, repeated on “Best of Our Knowledge” national program January 10, 2011
Explores AD/HD
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/news.newsmain/article/7288/0/1729593/Academic.Minute/Prof..Christie.Herbert..Landmark.College

Ken Gobbo
December 20, 2010 (repeated on “Best of Our Knowledge” national program April 18, 2011)
Discusses why those dealing with dyslexia often turn to art
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/news.newsmain/article/0/7288/1737956/Academic.Minute/Prof..Ken.Gobbo

The Washington Post

July 11, 2011
Megan Benzel (Class of 2011)
Preparing for College with a Learning Disability
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/campus-overload/post/preparing-for-college-with-a-learning-disability/2011/07/11/gIQALeuC9H_blog.html

Inside Higher Education

June 16, 2011
Peter Eden Named President of Landmark
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/06/16/new_presidents_provosts_alderson_broaddus_hampshire_landmark_sierra_siu_evansville_yavapai

University Business Magazine

June 1, 2011
Steve Fadden discusses how Landmark is teaching other colleges and universities to better support students who learn differently
http://www.universitybusiness.com/article/behind-news-55

National Public Radio’s “Tell Me More”

April 25, 2011
Brent Betit provides poems for National Poetry Month
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=46&prgDate=04-25-2011

Inside Higher Education

March 31, 2011
Basketball Coach John Wood discusses how to coach students with learning disabilities
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2011/03/31/john_wood_on_coaching_the_learning_disabled_basketball_player

National Center on Accessible Instructional Materials

February 2011
Five Landmark students discuss how they use assistive technologies to overcome their learning disabilities
http://aim.cast.org/collaborate/knowledge/story

The New York Times

January 9, 2011
Major feature on Landmark in the Education Life supplement, with photos
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/education/edlife/09landmark-t.html?pagewanted=all

The Huffington Post

December 6, 2010
Jim Baucom writes an essay on how college students don’t know how to study
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-baucom/post_1336_b_792738.html

The Washington Post

Nov. 3, 2010
Mac Gander writes about why so many college freshmen fail to launch academically
Your piece runs in this morning’s Inside Higher Education newsletter. Congrats John! Steve, will Rick tweet? Bill
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2011/03/31/john_wood_on_coaching_the_learning_disabled_basketball_player

NPR “Best of Our Knowledge”

(national half-hour program on education)
June 23, 2010
President Lynda Katz Essay
“What No Child Left Behind Really Means”
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1727846/The.Best.of.Our.Knowledge/The.Best.of.Our.Knowledge..1058

Education Week

June 8, 2010
President Katz writes on what No Child Left Behind Really Means
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/06/08/35katz.h29.html?qs=katz+landmark

NPR’s “Best of Our Knowledge”

March 15, 2010
National radio program records essay by Mac Gander on why students fail to succeed early in college
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1617486

The Chronicle of Higher Education

March 7, 2010
Feature story and photo on Landmark federal research grants that are helping learning disabled community college students succeed