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Test-optional admissions may be hurting disadvantaged students, study says

University Business

A new study from Dartmouth College suggests that test-optional admissions policiesdesigned to level the playing fieldmay be making it harder for high-achieving students from disadvantaged backgrounds to get into top colleges. Disadvantaged students benefit from submitting scores.

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Critical Studies of Education and Technology: A Call for Empathy and Equity (Part 2) #CSET2025

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Lawrie Phipps’ talk at our CSET event at UAL focused on the complexities and challenges faced by tutors/lecturers and students and the need for empathy and equity when using technology in education. Equity and Access : I first got to know Lawrie over 20 years ago (!)

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Thinking Beyond College Rankings

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Calling for “a new vision for college excellence,” Cardona championed equity, inclusivity, and upward mobility for disadvantaged demographics as new metrics for success to take the place of privilege, legacy, and selectivity.

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Closing Higher Ed’s Equity Gaps

Inside Higher Ed

The resounding demands for equity within higher education heard far and wide during the summer of 2020 have, I fear, faded. Even disadvantaged students with top-half scores have a lower chance of completing #college than advantaged students with bottom-half scores. Equity needs to be more than a floating signifier or empty cipher.

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Morehouse Joins Initiative to Bring College Courses to Disadvantaged High Schoolers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It's one of the new offerings coordinated by the National Education Equity Lab, an educational justice nonprofit that brings credit-bearing college courses into Title I and Title I-eligible high schools, at which large numbers of students come from families with little money. More partnerships are currently being explored.

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Private equity firm to acquire Keypath Education for AUD$187m 

The PIE News

Private equity firm Stirling Partners invests in education, consumer, healthcare and technology services including OpenClassrooms and Laureate Education. The post Private equity firm to acquire Keypath Education for AUD$187m appeared first on The PIE News. per share at approximately $186.8

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University of Dayton to Launch Health Equity Fellows Program for Underrepresented Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Meanwhile, UDayton’s new Health Equity Activation Think Tank will work with community partners, initially to address Black infant and mother mortality in Montgomery County, through a three-year grant from the CareSource Foundation. Health equity means that everyone — no matter their income, race, gender, education, location, etc. —

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