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Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s

EAB

The class entering college in 2027 was in sixth grade in Fall 2021 and has since failed to make up any of the ground they lost. While most of the commentary on the NAEP scores has been rightly focused on what needs to be done to help K-12 students catch up, my attention has been on what happens when these students reach college age.

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Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s

EAB

The class entering college in 2027 was in sixth grade in Fall 2021 and has since failed to make up any of the ground they lost. While most of the commentary on the NAEP scores has been rightly focused on what needs to be done to help K-12 students catch up, my attention has been on what happens when these students reach college age.

Faculty 52
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Pursuit of R-2 status can expand opportunity (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

There is that conjectural concern that as universities become more research-oriented, or move “up” in Carnegie classification, seeking R-2 (high research activity) or R-1 (very high research activity) status, they become less focused on students, more exclusive and less responsive to their communities’ needs.

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How Racial and Ethnic Identity Influence Your College Journey

EAB

The two discuss Dr. Peterson’s work at Penn and what they’ve each learned through their respective research on ways race and ethnicity help shape everything about a student’s academic development. And if you're at community college and you didn't think you would be in college, but there you are and you're questioning do you deserve this seat?