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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

FY 2005 $496,000,000 (President Bush’s request: $691,800,000). The 2010 request would continue the policy of permitting States to use up to 100 percent of their allocations for competitive grants to local educational agencies. Appropriations: FY 2002 $700,500,000 (President Bush’s request: $817,096,000). The post U.S.

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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. The post edFocus Policy Update | Summer Federal Funding Surge in DC appeared first on edWeb. Jon received his B.A. from Colgate University and his J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law.

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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

This is in addition to the drop of more than 90,000 (42 percent) licensed family child care homes between 2005 and 2017. We must advocate for similar policies at the national and local levels to increase investment in child care, including funding for higher wages, subsidies for low-income families and support for programs.

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Data Shows Demographics Are Shifting in Fast-Growing Cities. How Are School Districts Impacted?

Edsurge

We selected this timeframe because each year actually represents the tailend of five-year data estimates, with data gathered from 2005-2009 and the newest from 2017-2021. The trend lines compare the race/ethnicity proportions estimated in 2005-2009 to the estimates for 2017-2021. Census Bureau. Source: American Community Survey.

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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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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.