Author: Publisher: Public Policy Instit. of CA
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Closing the Gap: Meeting California's Need for College Graduates
Author: Publisher: Public Policy Instit. of CA
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Closing the Gap
Author: Hans P. JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781582131344
Category : College graduates
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
California 2025: Planning for a Better Future
Author: Publisher: Public Policy Instit. of CA
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Educating California: Choices for the Future
Author: Hans JohnsonPublisher: Public Policy Instit. of CA
ISBN:
Category : Academic achievement
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Preparing Today's Students for Tomorrow's Jobs in Metropolitan America
Author: Laura W. PernaPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812244532
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Written by researchers in education and urban policy, this volume offers useful insights into how to provide urban workers with the educational qualifications they need for real world jobs.
Higher Education in California
Author: Hans P. JohnsonPublisher: Public Policy Instit. of CA
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Rethinking Education and Poverty
Author: William G. TierneyPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421417685
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
How can new ways of thinking about education improve the lives of poor students? In Rethinking Education and Poverty, William G. Tierney brings together scholars from around the world to examine the complex relationship between poverty and education in the twenty-first century. International in scope, this book assembles the best contemporary thinking about how education can mediate class and improve the lives of marginalized individuals. In remarkably nuanced ways, this volume examines education's role as both a possible factor in perpetuating—and a tool for alleviating—entrenched poverty. Education has long been seen as a way out of poverty. Some critics, however, argue that educational systems mask inequality and perpetuate cycles of poverty and wealth; others believe that the innate resilience or intellectual ability of impoverished students is what allows those individuals to succeed. Rethinking Education and Poverty grapples in turn with the ramifications of each possibility. Throughout these compelling, far-reaching, and provocative essays, the contributors seek to better understand how local efforts to reduce poverty through education interact—or fail to interact—with international assessment efforts. They take a broad historical view, examining social, economic, and educational polices from the postWorld War II period to the end of the Cold War and beyond. Although there is no simple solution to inequality, this book makes clear that education offers numerous exciting possibilities for progress.
Making More in America
Author: The Problem of College Readiness
Author: William G. TierneyPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438457235
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Examines how states, schools, and postsecondary institutions might best help improve college readiness and completion. Though more students are entering college, many drop out, especially those who are low income and/or of color. To address this problem, educational stakeholders have focused on the concept of college readiness, or the preparation a student needs to succeed in college. However, what it means to be college ready and how to help more students become ready are questions without clear answers. By way of historical and contemporary analyses, this book uses California as a case study to demonstrate how the state has endeavored to make postsecondary opportunity accessible for all students. The contributors also explore the challenges that remain and address what states and schools can do to improve college readiness and completion. This book adds important information to the debates and discussions around this critical topic. Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner, coeditor of Understanding Minority-Serving Institutions
Transformative Practices for Minority Student Success
Author: Dina C. MarambaPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000971384
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Between 2000 and 2015 the Asian American Pacific Islander population grew from nearly 12 million to over 20 million--at 72% percent recording the fastest growth rate of any major ethnic and racial group in the US.This book, the first to focus wholly on Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Institutions (AANAPISIs) and their students, offers a corrective to misconceptions about these populations and documents student services and leadership programs, innovative pedagogies, models of community engagement, and collaborations across academic and student affairs that have transformed student outcomes.The contributors stress the importance of disaggregating this population that is composed of over 40 ethnic groups that vary in immigrant histories, languages, religion, educational attainment levels, and socioeconomic status. This book recognizes there is a large population of underserved Asian American and Pacific Islander college students who, given their educational disparities, are in severe need of attention. The contributors describe effective practices that enable instructors to validate the array of students’ specific backgrounds and circumstances within the contexts of developing such skills as writing, leadership and cross-cultural communication for their class cohorts as a whole. They demonstrate that paying attention to the diversity of student experiences in the teaching environment enriches the learning for all. The timeliness of this volume is important because of the keen interest across the nation for creating equitable environments for our increasingly diverse students.This book serves as an important resource for predominantly white institutions who are admitting greater numbers of API and other underrepresented students. It also offers models for other minority serving institutions who face similar complexities of multiple national or ethnic groups within their populations, provides ideas and inspiration for the AANAPISI community, and guidance for institutions considering applying for AANAPISI status and funding. This book is for higher education administrators, faculty, researchers, student affairs practitioners, who can learn from AANAPISIs how to successfully engage and teach students with widely differing cultural backgrounds and educational circumstances.