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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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A Race Scholar

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He says he thought that, after earning the degree, he might return to the Compton school district to work as a curriculum coordinator or literacy specialist. He earned tenured three years later, became a full professor in 2011, and was named the Pritzker Family Endowed Chair of Education in 2018.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A data literacy workshop series offered each semester helps to foster a data-driven decision-making culture across the university. The data fellows program examines areas of success and areas that need improvement, advocates for understanding how Latino students experience CSULB, and examines the impact of programming.

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Completion Grants: Innovative Financial Aid for Today's Students

The University Innovation Alliance

So in 2011, we began to pilot a program that requires no application on the student's part. We just put the money in their accounts to prevent them from stopping or dropping out for financial reasons.

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Bullying

SRI Education

2013; Ttofi & Farrington 2011). Mission I’m possible: Effects of a community-based project on the basic literacy skills of at-risk kindergarteners. Including parents in bullying intervention and prevention efforts contributes to the success of these efforts (Carney et al., 2015; de Vries et al., 2018; Lereya et al., Child Trends.

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How to Leverage Giving Tuesday for Your School

School & Student Services by Community Brands

Giving Tuesday launched in the United States in 2012 after beginning as an idea in 2011 from the Chicago nonprofit Mary-Arrchie Theater Company. Children’s Literacy Initiative: The Children’s Literacy Initiative (CLI) helps to ensure that low-income students are able to read at or above their grade level.