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Community colleges tackle another challenge: Students recovering from past substance use

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In November, the Association of Recovery in Higher Education, which serves as a hub for the programs, launched a working group tasked in part with editing the guidelines for starting recovery programs to make them more applicable to community colleges. “I don’t know why we weren’t trying to do this years ago,” Miller said.

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Fresh Food, Dance Class, and Nap Mats: What's Lost Without Federal Money for Child Care

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In August 2019, she opened Miss Tiffany’s Early Childhood Education House, a child care center run in her home in Weirton, West Virginia. Her advocacy has started to take on a larger role in her life: She recently accepted a position as the executive director for the West Virginia Women’s Alliance.

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The SLIDE Study: A chat with Deb Kachel (Part 2)

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Deb : Using the NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) data from 2015/2016 school year to the 2018/2019. Is that academic leadership and advocacy being spread those through universities to their school librarian alumni? In Pennsylvania we have a guideline that suggests one certified librarian per district.

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Twilight of income-share agreements to pay for college?

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At the University of Utah, just 121 students have participated in the school’s ISA program since it started in 2019, at a university that enrolled more than 34,000 last year, Rebecca Walsh, a university spokesperson, said by email. In 2019, Sean Linehan cofounded Placement Holdings. Others worry about federal scrutiny.

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A Faculty-Led Fund Gets Cash to Struggling Students, Fast

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This week, the FAST Fund named its 2019-2020 cohort: professors Ryan Gamba of California State University at East Bay, Karr? One guideline: The funds are not intended to reward students who earn the best grades. The committee spread word of the resources within the developmental learning and student advocacy departments.

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How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

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Guidelines put out by the U.S. So in 2019, Bates began to push for an individualized education program, or IEP, that would delineate specific reading supports for her older son. The studies came just as the U.S. However, the district did not provide any special education services.

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The community college “segregation machine”

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The California Acceleration Project, an advocacy group founded by faculty, reported that pass rates for underprepared students at Cuyamaca in college-level math jumped to 67 percent last year, up from 10 percent the year before. He is on track to pass them all, even with his heavy workload at UPS, and hopes to earn his degree in 2019.

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