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PROOF POINTS: Test-optional policies didn’t do much to diversify college student populations

The Hechinger Report

Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, pictured above, was one of 99 colleges that adopted test-optional admissions between 2005-6 and 2015-16. A study found that the policy boosted diversity on campuses by 1 percentage point, on average. In 1970, Bowdoin College was the first college in the country to go test optional.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. FY 2005 $496,000,000 (President Bush’s request: $691,800,000). FY 2003 $700,500,000.

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edFocus Policy Update | Summer Federal Funding Surge in DC

edWeb.net

Read the Policy Update from our July edFocus issue , written by Jon Bernstein, President of Bernstein Strategy Group. billion in funding for schools and libraries to apply for funds to purchase hotspots, modems, routers, computers and home Internet access services for students and teachers who lack broadband at home.

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OPINION: After years of silent sacrifices and unseen struggles, Black women are still holding up the child care industry

The Hechinger Report

Pre-pandemic, there was already limited availability of affordable options; new closures will deepen the challenges faced by parents in securing reliable and accessible care for their children. This is in addition to the drop of more than 90,000 (42 percent) licensed family child care homes between 2005 and 2017. in New York.

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PROOF POINTS: Colleges that ditched test scores for admissions find it’s harder to be fair in choosing students, researcher says

The Hechinger Report

Admissions officers at selective colleges were also “overwhelmed” by the volume of applicants that test-optional policies had unleashed. One of our key findings were the tensions that were emerging around these test optional policies,” said Slay. There’s a struggle on how to implement them.”.

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Climate Change Took a Heavy Toll on the U.S. Last Year. What’s the Cost to Education?

Edsurge

Davis, an assistant professor in the department of public policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In an interview with EdSurge, Weems said that one distinction between 2005 and now is people’s willingness to acknowledge the importance of mental health. One of those researchers is Cassandra R.

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PROOF POINTS: Long-term college benefits from high-quality universal pre-K for all

The Hechinger Report

Four-year-old children who attended public pre-K in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2005-06 were far more likely to go to college within a couple years of graduating high school than children who did not attend, according to a 15-year study of 4,000 students. Children without preschool managed to catch up to those who went to preschool.