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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And as business owners, Latinos made up 50% of net new small businesses from 2007–2017. Despite these gains, Latino students continue to face several hurdles during their academic and career pursuits, such as insufficient financial literacy, career planning, and financial assistance. Additionally, their purchasing power of $3.4

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Study: Third-Grade Retention Has Positive Effects for Student Outcomes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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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.

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Anti-Racist Teachers: Disrupting Resegregation [Overrepresentation] in Special Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Similarly, our second finding suggests that kindergarten assessments predicted the resegregation of these boys and girls in special education, compared to white girls, by third grade. Strassfeld, N., Hillemeier, M., & Schussler, D. Are Black children disproportionately overrepresented in special education? A best-evidence synthesis. schools.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 3

EAB

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. Bouwma-Gearhart, J., & Park, H.

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What enrollment teams need to know about the GMAT Focus Edition

EAB

These institutions noted that students’ data literacy was one of the skills enrollment offices needed more information on to truly gauge academic readiness. Within the US, the number of GMAT test-takers has declined from nearly 104,000 in 2017 to fewer than 48,000 in 2021 – a 54% decrease in just 5 years.

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

Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

Fast forward to 2017 and user experience design, learning analytics , BYOD, machine learning/artificial intelligence , predictive data dashboards, digital learning systems, and myriad social media have all been assembled into coherent elements of a high tech, high touch environments. That was way back in 2004.