When it comes to higher education reform, doing a better job of accrediting and evaluating individual colleges for quality and student outcomes is at the top of the list for many policymakers. In just the past year, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions held a hearing on reforming the accreditation process, the Obama administration went to court to force for-profit schools to better prepare their students for “gainful employment” and also lost a battle to create a new College Ratings system to track data on post-degree earnings and job placement…
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… Mexican-Americans need in order to maximize potential for academic success? Secondary
Questions: … As Bauman (2008) stated, “Among Mexican Americans, whose cultural values were
collective (as compared to individualistic), relationships with others were important. …
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When it comes to higher education reform, doing a better job of accrediting and evaluating individual colleges for quality and student outcomes is at the top of the list for many policymakers. In just the past year, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions held a hearing on reforming the accreditation process, the Obama administration went to court to force for-profit schools to better prepare their students for “gainful employment” and also lost a battle to create a new College Ratings system to track data on post-degree earnings and job placement.
While policymakers hope these reforms will benefit college students overall, the push to emphasize quality may have a more profound impact on minority groups, particularly blacks and Hispanics…
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Cuesta College worked Friday to inspire the Latino population to break barriers that may be keeping them from higher education.
Cuesta reached out to local Latino and Latina high school students to let them know college is an option and explain the opportunities available.
“We give them motivational speakers, panelists, successful Latinos and Latinas so they can say ‘Oh my goodness, I can do what they did, I am exactly like them!'” explained Estella Vazquez, ESL Specialist Outreach/Recruiter at Cuesta College…
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Elsa Salazar Cade, a Mexican American educator and entomologist, was born in 1952 and raised in the Lone Star State of Texas. After earning her bachelor’s degree in science education from the University of Texas, Austin, she was employed for two years as a fourth grade teacher, and for two years as a reading and remedial math teacher. When she completed her master’s degree in public school administration from Niagara University, she continued her career as a junior high school science educator in the public school system in Buffalo, New York…
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AI Conversation – Youth Voices, Public Spaces, and Civic …, 2016 – books.google.com
The Llano Grande Center for Research and Development was born in a classroom at
Edcouch-Elsa High School (EE HS) in rural South Texas as a college preparation program
in response to chronically low levels of college attendance of local youth. The founders of …
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