Edsurge
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
For years, the parent advocacy group worked tirelessly to influence education policy and practices in Oakland. Young had already built considerable credibility with the district through earlier advocacy work and a city-wide literacy campaign conducted by the parent-powered organization.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
The Association of American Colleges & Universities has identified a set of “ high-impact educational practices ” shown through research to improve student retention, including first-year seminars, learning communities, undergraduate research opportunities and service-learning programs.
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The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
But not every student can make the leap to full-time status, said Karen Stout, president of the nonprofit advocacy group Achieving the Dream; many have neither the money nor the time. The seminar covers themes relevant to students’ lives, with topics including hip hop and “The Immigrant Experience.”
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 31, 2019
Smith’s center, A Jubilee Academy, was chosen to participate in an improvement program by PRE4CLE, a city initiative with the goal of expanding access to high-quality preschool across Cleveland. This focus on access to high-quality preschool was born out of a larger city-wide plan to transform schools, introduced in Cleveland in 2012.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 10, 2021
Feliza Ortiz-Licon, chief policy and advocacy officer at Latinos for Education, a nonprofit group, said that administrators and educators who want to address racial disparities in college completion need to look at the entire system and take responsibility for their part in it.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
The university also pairs Mosaic students with other UTC undergraduates who take a class about autism and advocacy. These mentors meet with their students at least an hour a week and sometimes organize group activities, such as a seminar on relationships. Chris Bogans with his student mentor, Hayleigh Weissenbach.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
“It is treated as this extra piece that is not a central part of education,” said Amanda Seewald, president-elect of the Joint National Committee for Languages and the National Council for Languages and International Studies, a legislative advocacy group. Angle, who teaches Classical Chinese Philosophy in English, does one in Mandarin.
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