[xmca] FW: Interventions to Support Readiness, Recruitment, Access, Transition, and Retention for Postsecondary Education Success:

["Peter Smagorinsky" <smago@uga.edu>]

A NEW REPORT
Interventions to Support Readiness, Recruitment, Access, 
Transition, and Retention for Postsecondary Education Success: 
An Equity of Opportunity Policy and Practice Analysis 
http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/postsecondary.pdf




Recognition is growing about the public health and civil rights imperative
for reducing the high rate of school dropouts. However, too little policy
attention is paid to enhancing equity of opportunity for those transitioning
from adolescence to young adulthood by increasing enrollment and success in
postsecondary education. 

Previous policy and practice reports from the Center at UCLA have provided
analyses indicating that reducing dropouts, increasing graduation rates, and
closing the achievement gap require more than improving preK-12 instruction
and enhancing school management. In doing so, those analyses clarified
fundamental flaws in prevailing school improvement policies and practices
for addressing barriers to learning and teaching and recommended
transformative changes. 

This new report extends the earlier work by analyzing postsecondary
education. Given concerns about diversity and the degree to which some
subgroups are underrepresented in postsecondary education, the report
stresses that it is essential to use the lenses of equity of opportunity and
social justice in rethinking postsecondary education policies and practices.
Using these lenses, the report focuses on interventions for improving K-12
in ways that reduce dropouts and improve readiness for postsecondary
education, programs for bolstering recruitment and access, and efforts to
facilitate transition and retention; recommendations for a shift in policy
to enhance equity of opportunity are offered. The work is particularly
timely given the increasing calls for enhancing enrollment in and completion
of postsecondary education programs and for ensuring inclusion of more and
more students from subgroups that have been underrepresented for too long. 

For this report to have value, it needs to be shared. 
Please forward it to anyone you think 
should be paying attention to these matters.
http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/postsecondary.pdf



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