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Closing Equity Gaps in Credit for Prior Learning: Tools and Strategies to Recognize All Learning
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Rebecca Klein-Collins; Christina Sedney; Patrick Lane – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2024
The CAEL (Council for Adult and Experiential Learning) and the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) announce the inaugural winners of the Credit for Prior Learning (CPL) Equity Awards, recognizing strategies that have been proven to put CPL in reach of key adult learner populations and/or increase their CPL credit-earning.…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Adult Learning, Experiential Learning, Alaska Natives
A New Look at Utah's Growing Opportunity Gap. Issue Brief
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Martinez, Laís; Mayne, Carrie – Utah System of Higher Education, 2020
Last year, the Utah System of Higher Education (USHE) published an issue brief on Utah's Opportunity Gap. The 2019 report focused on the long-range impacts of shifting demographics within Utah's population on enrollments and completions within USHE. What the report failed to do is address the responsibility of the System to evaluate the ways in…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Minority Group Students
"¡Ya basta con la ciudadanía restrictiva!": Undocumented Latina/o Young People and Their Families' Participatory Citizenship
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Gutiérrez, Leticia Alvarez – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2016
This article describes a community-based participatory action research project (PAR), "Voces Diversas e Importantes" [Diverse and Important Voices] that the intergenerational Family School Partnership (FSP) collective enacted to support citizenship participation and increase the possibilities undocumented Latina/o students and families…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic American Students, Citizen Participation
Putting the "Public" Back in Public Education: Community Advocacy and Education Leadership under the Every Student Succeeds Act
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Sampson, Carrie; Horsford, Sonya Douglass – Journal of School Leadership, 2017
In this article, we argue that ESSA provides a unique policy window for district-level leaders to advance an equity agenda by working closely with local community advocates. Drawing from a larger qualitative, multiple case study on the role of school boards in three U.S. Mountain West school districts, we focus on community advocacy committed to…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, School Districts, Advocacy, Case Studies
Latino College Completion: Utah
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Excelencia in Education (NJ1), 2012
In 2009, Excelencia in Education launched the Ensuring America's Future initiative to inform, organize, and engage leaders in a tactical plan to increase Latino college completion. An executive summary of Latino College Completion in 50 states synthesizes information on 50 state factsheets and builds on the national benchmarking guide. Each…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Achievement Gap, Benchmarking
State Summary of Utah. Ed Watch Online.
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Education Trust, Washington, DC. – 2001
This report provides data on the academic achievement gap that separates low-income and minority students from other students, examining how well different groups of students perform in Utah and noting inequities in teacher quality, course offerings, and funding. Included are tables and data that provide: a frontier gap analysis (a comparison of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Curriculum, Educational Attainment