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AB 705: Bold Policy, Implications for Equitable Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For example, the percentage of first-time students enrolling in transfer-level math and English courses within their first year of college rose dramatically between the fall 2015 and fall 2020 cohorts. Many other states have adopted or are implementing similar reforms and are observing comparable outcomes.

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Standing Up to Attacks on Black History and DE&I

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After a national and international racial reckoning spurred by the killing of George Floyd in 2020, politicians have hit back hard. Black history — and Black Americans — are under attack. We must continue to invest in and professionalize high-quality DE&I work—and resist efforts to delegitimize it.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Because they are receiving unnecessary services and may not have access to the general education curriculum and classroom. In fact, these resegregated practices cause short-term and long-term harm for Students of Color (National Center for Learning Disabilities, 2020). curriculum and instruction, and assessment).

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We are Not an ‘Issue’: We are Your Students of Color!!

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When cultural ways of being and cultural differences are framed as assets rather than problems, unnecessary special education referrals, labeling, and placements will decrease. Thus, it is critically important that all students are provided access to a rigorous curriculum in high school to prepare them to be college and/or career ready.

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Dear David 2.0: Unmasking the College Board’s Profiteering at Educators’ Expense

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A little background for anyone new or unfamiliar with The College Board The College Board, a major educational “nonprofit” organization in the United States that operates around the world, is perhaps most famously known for its administration of the SAT and Advanced Placement (AP) exams.

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Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s

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The cohort of students who were taking algebra during their first year of high school in 2020-2021 will begin entering college in Fall 2024. High school grades are no longer as reliable, standardized test scores became optional for admissions, and placement tests were often abandoned or replaced with alternatives.

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Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s

EAB

The cohort of students who were taking algebra during their first year of high school in 2020-2021 will begin entering college in Fall 2024. High school grades are no longer as reliable, standardized test scores became optional for admissions, and placement tests were often abandoned or replaced with alternatives.