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Blog:  Confessions of a Community College Dean Earlier this week, I asked if anyone had seen effective college recruitment during COVID. Nobody had. That’s both heartening and devastating. -- The piece about self-selection and online classes elicited some thought-provoking responses. One was from a professor whose experience was precisely the opposite: he saw student performance lagging across the board, including among students he had taught before. Another was from a researcher who suggested that self-selection at the section level has been replaced by self-selection in terms of showing up to college at all. He noted, correctly, that the students most able to keep showing up tend to be the students with economic means. To the extent that the pandemic has disproportionately forced low-income students and students of color out of college altogether, any improvement in pass rates is more appropriately read as a sign of exclusion. Both strike me as plausible, but also a...

OAKLAND, Calif. — Vida Mendoza is only 14, but she hopes to vote in two years. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Mendoza is a member of the student-led Oakland Youth Vote campaign, which advocates for giving 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote for school board representatives. In May, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to put the initiative on the November ballot. Mendoza, a freshman at Life Academy in Oakland, said her school board must be held accountable to the district’s 36,000 students, 85 percent of whom are people of color , and ensure that all of its schools are “getting the resources they need.” Fourteen-year-old Vida Mendoza, a ninth grader at Life Academy in Oakland, California, has campaigned for a ballot measure that would lower the voting age to 16 for the city’s school board elections. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report Photo by Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report “Who is the school board really representing?” said Mendoza. “Are s...

Vida Mendoza tiene sólo 14 años, pero espera votar en dos años. This story also appeared in Telemundo Mendoza es parte de la campaña por la iniciativa Oakland Youth Vote , dirigida por estudiantes que abogan por dar a los jóvenes de 16 y 17 años, el derecho a votar por los representantes de la junta escolar. En Mayo el Concejo Municipal de Oakland votó unánimemente para incluir la iniciativa en la boleta de votación en las elecciones generales de Noviembre. Mendoza es una estudiante de noveno grado en la escuela secundaria, Life Academy en Oakland. Dice que la junta escolar debe rendir cuentas a los 36,000 estudiantes del distrito, el 85 por ciento de los cuales son personas de color, y asegurarse que todas sus escuelas estén “obteniendo los recursos que necesitan”. Vida Mendoza, de catorce años, estudiante de noveno grado en Life Academy en Oakland, ha hecho campaña a favor de una medida electoral que reduciría la edad para votar a 16 años para las elecciones de la junta e...

Campuses should avoid sending infected students home for the holiday, the American College Health Association said. from News https://ift.tt/2TADUXh

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Blog:  Just Visiting In my view, two of the important pillars of effective instruction are consistency and flexibility. These pillars are so important because the great enemy of effective instruction is disruption. In any given pre-pandemic semester, any number of individual students will experience a disruption to their ability to access and engage with their own education. Illness, family problems, relationship problems, housing insecurity, you name it, there’s students on campus whose educations are being disrupted in significant ways. We tend to accept these things as inevitable (though for things like housing insecurity, we shouldn’t), while trying to mitigate the effects of disruption through the structure of our courses and consistency of instruction. The course is there for the student when they’re able to get back to it. The flexibility – in my view – is necessary because I want students to be able to pick up where they left off, rather than seeing a cascading ...

Generous family leave time. Reduced tuition for child care programs. Fewer requirements to receive government support. These are some of the policies other countries have taken to ease the burden on parents or providers during the coronavirus pandemic, some of which come from nations that have long been supportive of children and their families, according to a new brief from the   National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) . The brief highlights how several countries have taken especially bold steps to support child care and families, with some policies offering a stark comparison to America, where the nation’s already fragile child care system has struggled during the pandemic. Some experts estimate up to half of all child care centers in America could close their doors by the end of the pandemic due to decreases in enrollment and increased costs. Centers that have remained open are struggling to survive with smaller class sizes while often paying for extensive change...

Judith Moore, a mathematics professor at the College of Southern Maryland, was overseeing a test last term in the way it’s done these days. She kept an eye on the images of her students on her screen as the cameras on their computers showed them taking the tests from kitchen tables and bedrooms of wherever they happened to be. But she noticed one woman who appeared to be in distress. "She kept putting her face in her hands," said Moore. "She had this look of intense frustration, like she was trying not to cry." So Moore messaged her to ask what was wrong. What the student messaged back was indicative of the challenges often faced by students of color. Because the students are more likely to come from lower-income backgrounds and families who can’t afford to help them pay the bills, they are more likely to have to work or raise children while they go to class. Students who attend institutions that disproportionately serve more students of color, including commu...