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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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Study: Outcomes of Students in Policy Debate Programs Linked to ELA Improvements and Postsecondary Enrollment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Beth Schueler University of Virginia Policy debate is a competitive activity in which students engage in structured argumentation about public policy issues, often requiring in-depth learning about policy areas. The impact was almost entirely concentrated among reading subskills that involve more analysis and argumentation.”

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Nicholas Bell Further entrenching this racialized injustice is more recent research that inappropriately uses achievement covariates in statistical models to make universal problematic claims that Black and Latinx students are underrepresented in special education. Gallaudet University Press. Strassfeld, N., Hillemeier, M.,

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 3

EAB

In the life of a campus information technology or institutional research professional, rarely a day goes by that data is not positioned as a universal solution, whether by a vendor or the higher education media. New Directions for Institutional Research, 2017 (173), 63-74. The Journal of Higher Education, 85 (6), 826-857.

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What enrollment teams need to know about the GMAT Focus Edition

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These institutions noted that students’ data literacy was one of the skills enrollment offices needed more information on to truly gauge academic readiness. Within the US, the number of GMAT test-takers has declined from nearly 104,000 in 2017 to fewer than 48,000 in 2021 – a 54% decrease in just 5 years.

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Student Success, Retention, and Employability – Getting Digital in a High Tech, High Touch Environment

Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

Every interaction that a student has with a university representative is important. The more engaged a student is during their university experience, the more successful they will be. It would be interesting to see a university engage in beta-testing for all of their classes…online and offline. That was way back in 2004.

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The Council for Opportunity in Education Applauds Senators Susan Collins, Jon Tester, Shelley Moore Capito, and Tammy Baldwin for Reintroducing Bill to Strengthen the Federal TRIO Programs

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Furthermore, it aims to prevent a similar situation in 2017 when the U.S. Among those affected was the University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI). Department of Education rejected many applications based solely on minor formatting issues. Education Bill Blog Helping Veterans Make the Most of the G.I.