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Foxx, Sejal Parikh, Ed.; Elizondo, J. Anthony, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2023
It is not surprising that in order to meet the job demands of the future, we need to ensure that students have the knowledge and opportunity to choose from an array of postsecondary options before graduating from high school. Particularly as our society continues to increase in diversity, providing access to college and career choices for all…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Barriers, Cultural Relevance
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Wilson-Kennedy, Zakiya S., Ed.; Byrd, Goldie S., Ed.; Kennedy, Eugene, Ed.; Frierson, Henry T., Ed. – Diversity in Higher Education, 2019
U.S. students exit undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programs at alarming rates. Less than 50 percent of the undergraduate students who enter STEM degree programs as aspiring freshmen complete degrees in these areas. This is especially true for minorities, whose departure from STEM degree programs is often twice the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Access to Education, Minority Group Students, Disproportionate Representation
Goodman, Christie L., Ed. – Intercultural Development Research Association, 2021
This year's study is the 34th in a series of annual reports on trends in dropout and attrition rates in Texas public schools, with the initial attrition study released by the Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) in 1986. The 2018-19 study builds on a series of studies by IDRA that track the number and percent of students in Texas…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Student Attrition, Dropouts, Graduation Rate
Conchas, Gilberto Q., Ed.; Hinga, Briana M., Ed.; Abad, Miguel N., Ed.; Gutierrez, Kris D., Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2019
"The Complex Web of Inequality in North American Schools" analyzes and challenges the critical gaps and inequalities that persist in the American school system. Showing how historical biases have been inherited in current polices relating to non-dominant youth, the text calls for educational reforms that perform in the name of social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Educational Change, Social Justice
Arthur, Courtney; Badertscher, Eden; Goldenberg, Paul; Moeller, Babette; McLeod, Matt; Nikula, Johannah; Reed, Kristen – Education Development Center, Inc., 2017
This collection of six essays shares insights and strategies from the Education Development Center's (EDC) work to close opportunity gaps in mathematics education and support teachers in improving instruction. This report includes the following essays: (1) Adam's World: Reflections on the Achievement Gap; (2) Five Key Characteristics of Effective…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Educational Improvement, Achievement Gap
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2014
"Research Messages 2013" provides a summary of the research published in 2013 by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) in the following broad categories: (1) skills and productivity: from VET qualifications to higher-level qualifications and issues affecting the workforce; (2) social inclusion and participation in…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Job Skills, Productivity, Educational Research