Higher education Educational Opportunity Fund Program and Community College Student Retention SETON HALL UNIVERSITY Rong ChenFannie Gordon WatsonArethaThe EOF program is a state funded student support services program designed to provide access and financial support to disadvantaged students, and to improve ...
This learning pod presents the opportunity to do what decades of advocacy couldn’t – center traditional knowledge on Lakota terms. As Mary Bowman says of the assimilative nature of American education so far, “The boarding schools tried to make us forget, but we aim to remember.” This ...
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"According to an evaluation released yesterday by the US Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences, the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) has �significantly improved students� chances of graduating from high school.� The same study finds that �parents had higher ...
(1989). The diverted dream: Community colleges and the promise of educational opportunity in America. New York: Oxford University Press. Book Google Scholar Brown, D. K. (1995). Degrees of control: A sociology of educational expansion and occupational credentialism. Teachers College Press. Brown...
and the relative diminution of others. It is in this respect that this study might inform the work of policymakers. Britain’s current coalition government has emphasized schooling as its main policy focus for improving educational opportunity and access to higher education. This is logical: as men...
Educational Opportunity Fund Program and Community College Student Retentiondoi:10.1177/1521025118780329Aretha WatsonSAGE PublicationsSage CA: Los Angeles, CA
The purpose of this research is to describe the lived experience of Black males in an Educational Opportunity Fund (EOF) program at a community college. According to research, community colleges are the first option for many Black male students who are underprepared academically and come from low...
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When learning about animals, direct experience poses an ideal opportunity to influence the participants' attitudes and knowledge. However, in the case of large carnivores, direct experiences are scarcely possible, except at local zoos. School teaching should therefore rely on preserved materials, which...