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Olson, Lynn A. – Aspen Institute, 2018
The third case study from the Aspen Institute National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development discusses the role community partners can play in supporting children's learning in collaboration with schools. "School-Community Partnerships: Joining Forces to Support the Learning and Development of All Students" cites key…
Descriptors: School Community Programs, Partnerships in Education, Public Schools, Case Studies
Federick Ngo; Dan Cullinan – MDRC, 2022
While most community colleges admit all students who apply for admission, the vast majority have required students to demonstrate specified levels of literacy and numeracy before they can take college-level courses. Typically, students have been assessed using a single placement test, such as the College Board's ACCUPLACER. Colleges--or sometimes…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Placement, School Readiness, Placement Tests
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Lowenhaupt, Rebecca; Dabach, Dafney Blanca; Mangual Figueroa, Ariana – AERA Open, 2021
Drawing from a context of reception framework, this article asks the following questions: How do educators describe issues of safety and belonging in the context of a charged immigration policy climate? What practices have educators developed to support immigrant-origin youth? And, what are the relationships between educators' perceptions of…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Immigrants, Politics, Educational Practices
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Michael l. Wallace; Ashley M. Hall; Gary Frank Varrella; Pamela Watson; Kelly Anne Stewart; Brian Brandt – Journal of Youth Development, 2024
A critical need exists for adults who are properly prepared to meaningfully engage with adolescents. While utilizing teens in leadership and teaching roles has been gaining popularity and application, a developmental and skills-based approach for improving "trusted adult" capacity to engage with adolescents has not been comprehensively…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Adolescents, Youth Programs, Adolescent Development
Washington Student Achievement Council, 2023
Basic needs insecurity -- including housing and food insecurity, as well as lack of access to healthcare, childcare, transportation, and other basic needs -- is a critical barrier that can undermine persistence and completion rates for postsecondary students. The gaps in covering critical costs such as housing and food are pervasive among students…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Student Needs, College Students, Program Effectiveness
Education Trust, 2023
Social, emotional, and academic development (SEAD) is a holistic approach to supporting students' development and learning that is integral to ensuring positive outcomes in school and beyond. Schools must ensure students experience healthy development and rigorous learning. Unfortunately, students of color, students from low-income backgrounds,…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Student Development, Minority Group Students, Racial Differences
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Hunter R. Boylan; Barbara J. Calderwood; Barbara S. Bonham – Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2019
This paper contends that, although there is much to commend in the remediation reform movement, it is unlikely to attain its goals. These goals include the Lumina Foundation's target of having 60% of Americans attain a degree or certificate, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's goal of doubling the number of low income students who earn a…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community College Students, Minority Group Students, Low Income Students
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Cuellar, Marcela G.; Gándara, Patricia – Community College Review, 2021
Objective/Research Question: The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which programs offering community college baccalaureates (CCBs) address access and equity for underrepresented racial minorities (URMs). The study first aimed to understand how administrators described the purpose of CCBs with regard to advancing equity for URMs.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Equal Education, Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students
Goldhaber, Dan; Imberman, Scott A.; Strunk, Katharine O.; Hopkins, Bryant; Brown, Nate; Harbatkin, Erica; Kilbride, Tara – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2021
The decision about how and when to open schools to in-person instruction has been a key question for policymakers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The instructional modality of schools has implications not only for the health and safety of students and staff, but also student learning and the degree to which parents can engage in job activities.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
Person, Ann E.; Gonzalez, Daisy; Lucchesi, Gina; Sullivan, Margaret; Price, Anne; Bhattacharya, Jhumpa – Mathematica, 2020
Now more than ever, philanthropy seeks to use its grant making and voice to build and support equity for historically marginalized communities. Toward that end, postsecondary education is an important area of investment because it is a critical pathway to economic mobility and stability. At the same time, colleges are serving a growing number of…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Holistic Approach
Sara Lovett – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In this dissertation, I build on scholarship on antiracist, culturally sustaining, translingual and ecological theories in composition studies to argue that equitable, accessible pedagogies affirm students' role as co-creators in producing knowledge alongside their peers and instructors and that antiracist ecological frameworks can aid writing…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Racism, First Generation College Students, Writing (Composition)
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Napolitan, Kate; Traynor, John; Tully, Deborah; Carney, Joanne; Donnelly, Susan; Herrenkohl, Leslie Rupert – Teachers College Record, 2019
Background/Context: The literature review (Phelps, this issue) outlines tensions that can come about in partnerships and collaborations between P-12 schools and teacher education. With these challenges as part of the context, the authors of this article describe the particular moves that school-based and community partners working with four…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education, Partnerships in Education, Democracy
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Pierce, Dennis – Community College Journal, 2018
Across the nation, community colleges are serving an increasing number of adults who are trying to learn new skills or return to the workforce. Some of these students offer particular challenges, such as newly released prisoners, older adults and veterans transitioning to civilian life. While each of these nontraditional populations has its own…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Adult Learning, Nontraditional Students, Correctional Institutions
Brown, Katie Canon – ProQuest LLC, 2018
A suburban school district in northwest Washington State has invested in a teacher-led, school-based model of instructional rounds to improve collaborative relationships among teachers and further teacher understanding of an instructional framework, but there is little formal evidence that instructional rounds is meeting its goals. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Improvement Programs, Teacher Improvement, Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration
Caroline Whittaker Leffall – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The study reveals the barriers and challenges of African Americans during their ascendancy to senior-level leadership roles. The study addresses the problem of racism and white privilege in higher education institutions related to the underrepresentation of African Americans in senior-level positions, specifically in Washington State community and…
Descriptors: College Administration, State Colleges, Administrators, African American Leadership
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