The document discusses inequality in education between minority and white students in the US. It notes gaps in admission, graduation, test scores, and overall achievement between these groups. While more minority students are pursuing higher education, colleges often reject them without providing equal opportunities for upward mobility. Community colleges are promoted as accessible options but are actually more expensive and less beneficial long-term. The document argues schools, not students' backgrounds, are responsible for these inequalities. It calls for more funding and resources for schools serving low-income and minority students, as well as better preparation and equal access to financial aid to improve educational outcomes.
Foundation Blueprint: Broadening our approach and expanding our impactAndy Pino
In 2012, the College Access Foundation of California announced an expansion of its grantmaking strategy to address the growing financial needs of California’s low-income student population. This new blueprint provides additional details about the Foundation’s efforts to reach more students through a broader grantmaking strategy.
Single parents face unique obstacles when they pursue higher education. These scholarships, exclusive to single parents, are designed to ease a single parent’s path to graduation, and support their goals to secure a better job and life for their family.
The Eduko Foundation aims to provide teens of all socio-economic backgrounds an opportunity to an enhanced education. Eduko uses the power of social learning to achieve that goal through a soon to be launched online platform.
We have in mind a win-win situation in which people who answer questions on our platform are rewarded with volunteering hours for the precious time and help they provide to help a peer. The person asking the question wins as they get their answer and are able to further their learning.
Foundation Blueprint: Broadening our approach and expanding our impactAndy Pino
In 2012, the College Access Foundation of California announced an expansion of its grantmaking strategy to address the growing financial needs of California’s low-income student population. This new blueprint provides additional details about the Foundation’s efforts to reach more students through a broader grantmaking strategy.
Single parents face unique obstacles when they pursue higher education. These scholarships, exclusive to single parents, are designed to ease a single parent’s path to graduation, and support their goals to secure a better job and life for their family.
The Eduko Foundation aims to provide teens of all socio-economic backgrounds an opportunity to an enhanced education. Eduko uses the power of social learning to achieve that goal through a soon to be launched online platform.
We have in mind a win-win situation in which people who answer questions on our platform are rewarded with volunteering hours for the precious time and help they provide to help a peer. The person asking the question wins as they get their answer and are able to further their learning.
Students are not being taught enough about financial responsibility. In fact, only FOUR states require a class in financial education. 65% of student loan borrowers misunderstand or are surprised by aspects of their student loans or the student loan process. Don’t get buried — get educated about financial responsibility before you’re trapped by the weight of debt.
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California State University, Los Angeles
Dec 7-8, 2017
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The final result is a set of presentations that help to define a model of entrepreneurship rooted in social research, community accountability, and practical innovation. For more: www.praxicalsoc.org/strategies
Last week, when I AM NOT A LOAN raised our concerns about UVa's decision to eliminate the no-loan provision from AccessUVa, we received a lengthy response from President Sullivan. We know others may have received the same response, so we wanted to share our thoughts in the accompanying slide show. It's disappointing that the University is more concerned with justifying its actions than admitting it made a mistake and fixing it.
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This was my 2nd presentation for Early College Awareness at my current school. There is a video with sound. It may not have uploaded correctly. I will be more than happy to send the video by an alternate method if needed.
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Students are not being taught enough about financial responsibility. In fact, only FOUR states require a class in financial education. 65% of student loan borrowers misunderstand or are surprised by aspects of their student loans or the student loan process. Don’t get buried — get educated about financial responsibility before you’re trapped by the weight of debt.
CaSES: Civic and Social Entrepreneurship Summit
California State University, Los Angeles
Dec 7-8, 2017
At CaSES, over 100 students presented innovative solutions to wicked problems in their communities. Students in the Race/Class/Gender course first conducted Needs Assessments of their communities to explore the connections between course themes and real-life experience. They worked in teams, analyzing qualitative and quantitative data to design solutions and considering the challenges of implementing big ideas for social change.
The final result is a set of presentations that help to define a model of entrepreneurship rooted in social research, community accountability, and practical innovation. For more: www.praxicalsoc.org/strategies
Last week, when I AM NOT A LOAN raised our concerns about UVa's decision to eliminate the no-loan provision from AccessUVa, we received a lengthy response from President Sullivan. We know others may have received the same response, so we wanted to share our thoughts in the accompanying slide show. It's disappointing that the University is more concerned with justifying its actions than admitting it made a mistake and fixing it.
College is a significant investment. Is it really worth the cost? We’ve put together some information that answers that question, and also sheds light on how to save (and why).
This was my 2nd presentation for Early College Awareness at my current school. There is a video with sound. It may not have uploaded correctly. I will be more than happy to send the video by an alternate method if needed.
How to Successfully Engage with CIOs Research Report. While the CIO may be the ultimate decision maker, the organizational purchase process is extremely collaborative; tech marketers must ensure marketing strategy reaches across all influencers.
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This talk covers techniques from Battlefield 3 and Need for Speed: The Run. Includes chroma sub-sampling for faster full-screen effects, a novel DirectX 9+ scatter-gather approach to bokeh rendering, HiZ reverse-reload for faster shadow, improved temporally-stable dynamic ambient occlusion, and tile-based deferred shading on Xbox 360.
This presentation focuses less on the "nitty gritty" aspects of applying to college, and instead focuses on how to give advice regarding major decisions. It addresses various misconceptions about college to ensure students can make informed decisions.
Pathways to Opportunity Project: Increasing Educational Equity through Innova...Leslie Talbot
This paper details the complexities of in- and out-of-school challenges encountered by off-track youth. It outlines the tremendous opportunity these students present for high school innovation. The authors maintain that schools appropriately designed can effectively meet the academic and nonacademic needs of over-age and under-credited students. The authors provide recommendations school design and systems modifications that can be implemented in either public charter or district alternative high schools. It is the authors’ position (and experience) that schools implementing these design elements maintain safe and healthy climates and cultures, content and effective staff, and most importantly –greater performance gains and improved life circumstances for their students.
Relationship of Culture and Poverty in EducationJerry Dugan
Group presentation in a Masters Degree level course about equality in education. This slideshow is a summary of Chapter 1 from Closing the Poverty & Culture Gap: Strategies to Reach every Student by Donna Walker Tileston and Sandra K. Karling.
1. Is this the America We
Want to Be?
Inequality in Education
2. What Change?
Children of color are not achieving as well as white students in the U.S. schools= big gap
in admission rates, graduation rates, test scores, and achievement OVERALL
More minority students are beginning to turn to the decision to attend college, but
colleges turn them away. They want to succeed, but are not given the opportunity!--
>”Upward Mobility”
Low-income, minority students are encouraged to attend a community college, but are not
knowledgable of the fact that this is more expensive & less beneficial in the long run!--
>the students whom were spent less on since kindergarten somehow “belong” in the
institutions that virtually guarantee we will continue to spend less on them=this is
counterproductive and UN-AMERICAN
3. Why The Difference?
Minority students, specifically African Americans, are too difficult to
teach!
These students deal with so many daily problems outside of school,
so they have a difficulty in being educated!
The students whose parents have a lower income it’s because they
are lazy and don’t work as hard as others!
Schools are forced to lower Pell Grant & amount of financial aid
provided to college students who most need it!
4. Truth Is....
The fault of the low success rate of minorities is not of the daily
issues they face everyday or their low-economic state. IT IS THE
SCHOOLS RESPONSIBILITY!
All of those Statements were FALSE-->The opposite is true!
5. The Ugly Side of These
Institutions
No Fair-share! There’s a small limit of useful teachers and resources!There are hardly any
“good” teachers provided in classrooms of schools composed of these low-income, minority
students.
There is a decrease in the financial aid provided to students who REALLY NEED it.
Students who don’t need it are receiving EXTRA funding!(EOF is experiencing this now!)
There is poor preparation for students in this socio-economic group, so they are not given
the same chance as the next student--Schools CHOOSE to do this, not forced!
Activity
6. Where Is This
Happening in The U.S.?
Elementary Schools in low-income areas & which are highly populated of minority students
Flagship Schools:
in most cases, these are the 1st public universities to be established in their states.
Flagship: term became associated with these schools after WWII
formed the core public systems of higher education in their respective states.
These schools became centers for research & graduate education, adding to size &
scope
example: RUTGERS UNIVERISITY
7. A Real Look at These Gaps
Losing Our Children: http://www.edtrust.org/sites/edtrust.org/files/
publications/files/YesWeCan.pdf
Rutgers Reports 2009: http://oirap.rutgers.edu/reports/
AandEreport.pdf
8. More Graphs:
Flagship schools compared to others: http://
www.edtrust.org/sites/edtrust.org/files/
publications/files/Opportunity%20Adrift().pdf
9. “Uncommon education for
the common man”
The historic mission of Flagship universities
Students who attend these schools represent the states that they
are in less, but imitate the look of the students who attend elite
private research universities.
In 15 of the 22 states, the top-ranked private institution enrolls a
higher proportion of minority students than the public flagship(This
reverses when it comes to low-income students- 21% in Flagships
vs. 15% in private universities.)
10. A Solution!
COMMUNITY COLLEGES!!! Giving minority, low-income students a
cheaper and more accessible opportunity to receive higher
education was a GREAT idea!
11. Think About This:
A 2009 Education Trust report, “Charting a Necessary Path,” examined success rates in 24
public higher education systems:
24% of underrepresented minorities who begin 2-year colleges complete anything
within 4 yrs of entry-certificate, degree, or transfer
12 % who transfer to a 4-yr college, only 55% earn bachelor’s degrees within 6 years
of transferring
Which Means: only about 7% of minority students who begin a 2-yr colege earn a
bachelor’s degree from any institution in these large systems within 10 yrs of starting
Conclusion: This rate is far lower than among those who begin even in nonselective 4-yr
colleges
In 2006 Community College’ average in spending per degree $63,954- $14,073 more
spent than compared to a public master’s college & $7,211 more than compared to
average spending per degree at a public research college
Part of the reasoning could be from the lower amount of funding they receive, but this is
still an surprise!
12. We Need Change!! : The Real Solutions
We have to lessen the gap!
Community Colleges should be given more funding & provide
good teachers and resources just as well as 4-yr. schools
Flagship universities should provide financial aid to those who
NEED it!
There are high-achieving students from ALL backgrounds!
(explain)
We need more institutional leaders to make a choice of change,
along with those who finance these institutions
More finance=more resources, but we definitely need BETTER
Educators!
13. “Lean on ME”
“But we’re not aiming our students to go to college, we’re aiming
higher than that-we’re aiming them at graduating college” Elmont
Memorial Junior-Senior High School principal, Al Harper.
“Because a child is poor doesn’t mean he can’t learn. Because a
child lives in the projects doesn’t mean he can’t learn. If there are
gaps, we as a society must fill those gaps”