Contents

• 1. Learning communities and undergraduate education reform
• 2. Learning community history : education for what? : education for whom?
• 3. Learning community curricular structures
• 4. Core practices in learning communities
• 5. General education, the first year of college, and learning communities
• 6. Success for all : learning communities in basic skills and English as a second language settings
• 7. Information and feedback : using assessment to strengthen and sustain learning communities
• 8. Recruiting and supporting learning community teachers
• 9. Initiating and sustaining learning communities
• 10. The future of learning communities