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The College Board Receives an Investing in Innovation “i3” Grant Award
The College Board has received an award of $2,988,000 from the U.S. Department of Education for a 2011 Investing in Innovation, or i3 grant. The project is titled, “Student Success in AP Biology: Expanding the STEM College Readiness of High-Need Students”, and will develop, pilot, and evaluate new technology-enabled student- and classroom-level feedback reports to increase the rates at which high-need students succeed on the AP Biology Exam. Generous matching support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in the amount of $260,000 brings even further credibility to this important initiative.
The federal government has recently taken steps to simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) in order to make it easier for students and families to navigate. To assist states in preparing for these developments, the College Board, with support from the Lumina Foundation for Education, undertook an effort to estimate the effects of these potential changes. The College Board collaborated with and collected data from five states to study the impact of FAFSA simplification in a range of systems and to provide examples for other states with policies and approaches resembling one or more of those studied. The College Board has recently published the results in an Executive Summary, Can Simple Be Equitable? Lessons from State Grant Programs.
School counselors have the potential to significantly affect student outcomes and prepare students for college and career success. Yet the field of school counseling has not received the level of research, policy attention, and funding found in other educational fields. The 2011 National Survey of School Counselors, supported in part by the Kresge Foundation, was conducted by the College Board Advocacy & Policy Center’s National Office of School Counselor Advocacy (NOSCA). The survey will reveal how counselors feel about their mission, role, the support received from their schools, and will provide clear pathways to reform. More
Despite an important demographic shift across the United States, a limited proportion of Latinos are earning college degrees. The College Board Advocacy & Policy Center introduces its newly released publication, The College Completion Agenda Progress Report 2011: Latino Edition. The report and state policy guide, combined with a dynamic interactive website, contain in-depth findings about the educational progress of Latino students and offer a series of recommendations for addressing the challenges they face. More
Jamie Merisotis, president and CEO of the Lumina Foundation, writes about the need for a better educated populace, the enduring value of a college education, and Lumina’s efforts to improve the quality of post secondary education.
About 40 percent of African-American and Latino students attend racially isolated schools in which at least 90 percent of students are minorities, while just 8 percent of white students attend schools with at least 50 percent minority enrollment. Achieving Educational Excellence for All: A Guide to Diversity-Related Policy Strategies for School Districts, a new publication by the College Board and the National School Board Association (NSBA), aims to aid educators on possible ways to promote diversity and abide by the law. This publication is one way of informing district-specific K-12 student diversity policies that advance educational achievement for all students.
The Advocacy & Policy Center introduces the Young Men of Color initiative with the release of two new reports: The Educational Experience of Young Men of Color: A Review of Research, Pathways and Progress, and Capturing the Student Voice. The reports come alive through a dynamic new website that combines data and research with findings from in-depth student interviews featured through video storytelling.