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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"College Planning"”.
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Maintaining the Segregated City?: Exploring the College Planning Experiences of Kansas City’s Urban Students of Color and the Implications on Their Access to Higher Education
… dissertation examined the role of school-based college planning guidance services in the college trajectories of central city students of color. It is projected that by 2018, most jobs will require some postsecondary training beyond high school, placing almost 60 million Americans at risk of …
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First-Generation College Messages Transmitted During the College Transition Process
<p> As first-generation college parents experience their child's transition to become a college student, they are continually forming meanings and sending messages about this experience. Previous research has largely credited first-generation college parents with sending negative messages to their …
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The Contested Space of Community Colleges in the Age of Neoliberalism: The Case of City College of San Francisco Through the Accreditation Crisis of 2012-2017
… a case study concerning a California community college with a long history of working to be an open access, working class institution, despite the California policy structures pressuring and asserting community colleges to become more efficient and business like. For the state, the main focus is …
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Understanding the College Choice Process of Catholic Homeschooled Students
… how Catholic homeschooled students navigate the college choice process. With the growth of homeschooling in the United States nearly doubling in the past eight years (Cogan, 2010), this study explored a segment of this growing population to give researchers and practitioners a deeper …
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City Sons: How First-Generation College-Going African American Males Attending College in and around Their City of Origin Transition to and Persist within Post-Secondary Education
College retention, persistence, and success levels continue to be lower for students of color, first-generation students, and low-income students compared to the White majority. This study, focusing on African American males from Philadelphia, set out to investigate the challenges that young, …
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The predictive validity of the Short test of educational ability for three Virginia community colleges
Community college counselors are continually confronted with the difficult task of assisting students to choose from one of the various curricula. Scholastic aptitude test data have been frequently used by counselors to provide students with information to assist them in their college planning. …
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Introducing a quality system into an adult education college
… system developed for use in further education colleges is to be piloted in a college of adult education. A summarised description or tne system is provided with more detail provided at Annex (A). Research objectives are described and a number of issues are discussed around the theme of change. …
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High School Curriculum Tracks as Determinants of Post-Secondary Outcomes: A Study of Track Mobility and Its Effects
<p>Despite scores of studies that have shown that tracking and ability grouping perpetuate the academic achievement gap that exists in the United States, the practice continues. The reason for this persistence is a confluence of educational, social, and political factors. As tracking will continue …