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Former K-12 Teacher Voted AERA President-Elect

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Winn is also a former elementary and high school English teacher, who examines the intersections of language, literacy, and youth culture — and how nondominant communities have engineered teaching and learning communities at the contours of and adjacent to school settings.

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

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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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Phyllis Buchanan

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For DuPont’s Phyllis Buchanan, “promoting science literacy for all” has been her motivator. Buchanan, who manages the company’s Office of Education, a division of DuPont’s Center for Collaborative Research and Education, considers “today’s students” to be “tomorrow’s scientists.”

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

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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. Hillemeier, M., & & Maczuga, S. Replicated evidence of racial and ethnic disparities in disability identification in U.S. Nielsen, K. Beacon Press.

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Examples of Excelencia

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Associate Level English for Academic Purposes Reading Area Community College (Reading, PA) The English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at Reading Area Community College (RACC) began in 2012 to strategically reduce credit requirements and accelerate student progression with the goal of boosting enrollment and success rates.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 3

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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. EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

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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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