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Study: Outcomes of Students in Policy Debate Programs Linked to ELA Improvements and Postsecondary Enrollment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The study – published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) – examined data of students in Boston Public Schools during the 2007–08 to 2017–18 school years, of which 3,515 took part in the Boston Debate League. The impact was almost entirely concentrated among reading subskills that involve more analysis and argumentation.”

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 3

EAB

Similarly, I have attended department meetings across the organization, from finance to human resources to facilities, to understand the challenges that they face. An effective institutional leader must be willing to make appropriate investments in both technological and human resources to support the data-informed revolution.

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Student Success, Retention, and Employability – Getting Digital in a High Tech, High Touch Environment

Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

The idea being that technology would remove the human element and that it would be almost impossible to create technology-based systems that would elevate and enhance the human experience of higher education. Just think about all of the human-friendly technology-based services that make up the modern university.