Believe in Students

MAY 7, 2024

Occasionally I had to be the student while my younger sister bossed me around, but mostly, I was the teacher. I just knew I would be a fabulous teacher. Fast forward to the summer after college, when I moved to Texas to start my job as a high school Spanish teacher. I loved teaching, but I didn’t love being a teacher.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Blogs Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s Students are no longer entering college with the same levels of academic preparation that we might have expected before the pandemic, one of the many ripple effects we face as a result of disruptions in high school learning.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Blogs Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s Students are no longer entering college with the same levels of academic preparation that we might have expected before the pandemic, one of the many ripple effects we face as a result of disruptions in high school learning.

Student success 52

Student success Success Placement Developmental education 52

EAB

JULY 17, 2023

Blogs Are you prepared to recruit ‘Gen P’? 3 ways the pandemic changed college search behavior from our new survey of 20K+ high school students When was the last time you saw a teenager willingly answer a phone call? For more than a decade, we’ve asked high school students about their college search preferences and behaviors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

It’s not an everyday occurrence when a community college leader gets a phone call telling them their institution will receive an influx of funding in the millions. when MacKenzie Scott, one of the richest women in the world, decided to make a major investment in community colleges.

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#RealCollege Blog

APRIL 12, 2022

By: Victoria Rocha (she/her/hers), Fresno City College I have had a long journey through life, one that is characterized by bad choices and former incarceration. I planned only to obtain a certificate in Drug and Alcohol Counseling and give back to my community in that helping field. Now, I am a first-generation college graduate.

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