Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

Winn is also a former elementary and high school English teacher, who examines the intersections of language, literacy, and youth culture — and how nondominant communities have engineered teaching and learning communities at the contours of and adjacent to school settings.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

NaYoung Hwang Grade retention, the practice of having students repeat a grade if they do not pass certain proficiency thresholds, has been argued to help children develop their reading and literacy skills in early grades, preparing them for educational pursuits in the future. Literacy is really important.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

For DuPont’s Phyllis Buchanan, “promoting science literacy for all” has been her motivator. Buchanan, who manages the company’s Office of Education, a division of DuPont’s Center for Collaborative Research and Education, considers “today’s students” to be “tomorrow’s scientists.”

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Access and literacy are key to the data-informed campus If something cannot be measured and the resultant data stored, it is not possible to perform anything other than a “gut-feel” or purely qualitative assessment, a misstep that institutions cannot afford as enrollment and budget pressures increase. EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Associate Level English for Academic Purposes Reading Area Community College (Reading, PA) The English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at Reading Area Community College (RACC) began in 2012 to strategically reduce credit requirements and accelerate student progression with the goal of boosting enrollment and success rates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A data literacy workshop series offered each semester helps to foster a data-driven decision-making culture across the university. The data fellows program examines areas of success and areas that need improvement, advocates for understanding how Latino students experience CSULB, and examines the impact of programming.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Giving Tuesday launched in the United States in 2012 after beginning as an idea in 2011 from the Chicago nonprofit Mary-Arrchie Theater Company. Children’s Literacy Initiative: The Children’s Literacy Initiative (CLI) helps to ensure that low-income students are able to read at or above their grade level.

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