Sentences with phrase «generation college goers»

How can an understanding of adolescent development inform strategies and practices for supporting first - generation college goers?

Some groups, such as students with learning disabilities, first - generation college goers, English language learners, and undocumented students or families, will need targeted programs that deliver information and encouragement about postsecondary options in a clear and convincing way.

More than 100 thought leaders from colleges, organizations, and KIPP Through College programs across the US met to tackle the unique challenges that face first - generation college goers.

A nonprofit venture committed to creating a world in which a college degree provides equitable access to a choice - filled life by bridging the gap between college and work for first - generation college goers of color.

But active learning made all students perform better than in lectures, halved the achievement gap for black students, and completely closed it for first - generation college goers.

«The majority of our students are first - generation college goers,» says Marcario Hernandez, Trinidad Garza's assistant principal.

About Michigan College Access Network As the leader in the state's college access movement, MCAN's mission is to increase Michigan's college readiness, participation and completion rates, particularly among low - income students, first - generation college going students, and students of color.

As the leader in the state's college access movement, MCAN's mission is to increase Michigan's college readiness, participation and completion rates, particularly among low - income students, first - generation college going students, and students of color.

The Michigan College Access Network is committed to increasing college readiness, participation, and completion rates in Michigan, particularly among low - income students, first - generation college going students, and students of color.

MCAN's mission is to increase college readiness, participation and completion rates in Michigan, particularly among low - income students, first - generation college going students, and students of color.

JCA is also affiliated with the Michigan College Access Network (MCAN)(micollegeaccess.org), a statewide nonprofit organization with a mission to increase college readiness, participation, and completion in Michigan, particularly among low - income students, first - generation college going students, and students of color.

6to16 was inspired by practitioners who demanded new tools and supports to help more first generation college going kids get to and succeed in college.

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The way most Americans pay for college — a patchwork system of loans, grants, and scholarships from colleges — was largely created generations ago, when fewer people went to college and when the pri...

Solis: The older generation is making decisions based on their experience and how they went through life — going to college, getting a job, getting married, buying a house and buying a car.

So this year as we went in search of the best places to retire, we identified four archetypes of next - generation retirees and found a place for each of them: a college town for the academically minded, a city for the urban - inclined, a mountain town for lovers of the outdoors, and an overseas destination for explorers.

«I also think the younger generations... their view of their careers is very portable, they're not going to sign on to a place out of college and work there and retire, so they need to make sure they're squeezing everything they can out of each employment opportunity when it comes to their retirement,» he said.

A few of the obvious drives that pack us off, daily or weekly or episodically or, for some, in hope, permanently, are fear or even terror in the particular given set of circumstances; the sheer discouragement and exhaustion of facing questions without answer; profound disillusionment — it takes many forms — with the pertinent, prevailing system or systems; deep and bitter contempt for one's own society, bred of the abysmal failure to attain in consistent practice even a semblance of the justice professed and acclaimed; despair — so it was with the college generation of the late sixties — over the formidable obduracy of a political establishment in going its merciless way quite apparently deaf to the cries of anguish of its empathetic and real victims, victims by the tens of millions here and around the world.

Yet still more are first - generation fans, having gone to their first games as college students.

As our children — our pride and joy — go off to college this fall and their generation prepares to take the mantle of leadership from ours, we owe it to them to brace through our fierce tears of fear and longing and remind them to trust in themselves.

«These parents are Baby Boomers, who, more than any generation past or present, questioned authority when they went to college,» she wrote.

She was key in providing support for hundreds of students that earned college degrees and in many cases those student went on to become role models for the next generation.

He is also the personification of CUNY's mission — a first generation American who went to Brooklyn College and became the first in his family to earn a degree.

In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best - educated society in the world to one surpassed by eleven other nations in college graduation rates.

There was a generation between us (I'm 63, Liu is 45; I left Flushing to go to college in 1966, six years before Liu arrived), but much mnemonic overlap remained.

But it is even better than that because to go from generation to generation in the human world is either nine months or 21 years, depending on who you talk to; you've got to get pregnant; you've got to buy baby clothes, the whole thing; the kid goes to school and then college and a couple of decades later, you've got a new generation.

And lastly, this is a topic that a lot of people are scared to talk about, what happens to first - generation kids of color who go to college.

In the absence of proactive outreach to and support for low - income and first - generation students, many bright, resilient students who have worked hard to get to college and ardently want to go may fail to do so as a result of the behavioral obstacles they encounter.

I hold certain identities near and dear to my heart — as a 1.75 - generation immigrant from Peru; the oldest of six children; a child of a low - income, single - parent family; a first - generation college student — the list goes on.

Most were first - generation college - goers, and, lacking family role models, needed moral support and encouragement to stay the course.

A common presumption has been that low - income, first - generation students don't possess college - going aspirations, or that they lack information about what is required and necessary.

In particular, Smith says she has one big goal: for every student — but particularly low - income, minority, and first - generation college students — to have adequate preparation in high school for college, and for them all to have the opportunity to go to four - year colleges without incurring significant debt, if that is what they desire.

The phenomenon is even more pronounced for lower - income and first - generation college - going students, who often lack the supports of their higher - income peers.

It is a school wide readiness system ~ with a structured approach to rigorous curriculum that provides direct supports for first - generation - college goers and professional development for educators.

«This helps students see themselves on a college journey even if they may be the first generation of their families to have the option of going to college.

However, low - income and first - generation college - goers face unique challenges.

A Crimson Kind of Town Harvard Gazette, 5/13/15» «We've told generations: «Go to college, and there's a great return,»» [Professor Bridget Terry] Long continued.

They are also disproportionately female, single - parent, black, low income, in debt, and first - generation college - goers.

During the pilot year, students were part of program for first - generation college - goers.

On next - generation assessments: PARCC [the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Career, the assessment consortia to which Louisiana belongs] is going to affect the number of students completing tests successfully.

«For some students — especially first - generation students going to college — they may not have the vocabulary and skills to start the college application process,» says McCombs.

Her writing on the potential for Latino college - going talent includes a chapter («Making the Next Generation Our Greatest Resource») in Latinos in the Nation's Future (2009), edited by Henry Cisneros and published by Arte Público Press.

A caterer, an actress and an accountant were among professionals going back to their old school to inspire the current generation to academic success and career confidence under a scheme setting up «old school tie» networks in state schools and colleges.

Sonia Essaibi Prevention Science and Practice, Counseling Strand Hometown: Boston Then: Nonprofit work in Boston and New York City, supporting first - generation college - goers from low - income families Now: Working on licensure to become a school counselor at an urban public school

He spent nine years teaching math as a founding teacher of the New York Harbor School, an innovative public high school where he also worked closely with teachers, families, and college admissions offices directing the college access process for first generation college - going students.

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Community colleges are full of students who are a lot like the students at YES Prep and the other urban charter schools Duckworth is studying: first - generation college students from poor families who have to balance work and family while going to school.

The target population for early colleges is first - generation college - goers, those at - risk of dropping out or other historically underserved populations.

YES reports a six - year graduation rate of 41 %, which is four times the national average for demographically similar students (97 % of YES Prep students are Hispanic or African - American, and 90 % would be first - generation college - goers).

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