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An Incomplete City, September 2019. Collective student work by G Braunstein, C Brundege, A Elkafas, A Galloway, D Groves, T Jean-Louis, H Levin, Z Lynch, J McVicker, A Shenk, A Treadwel.. Workshop led by Prof. Adams and Santoyo-Orozco.
This spring, the first year of classes came to a close at a new undergraduate program in architecture at Bard College, a 2,000-student liberal arts school in rural Annandale, New York. According to the co-directors, Professors Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco and Ross Exo Adams, designing Bard Architecture’s new curriculum has been an opportunity to rethink architectural education by asking: “What is architecture in the first place?”
As the coronavirus pandemic threatens to widen college completion gaps, advocates say the present moment calls for greater state investments in early college programs.
Those programs, which give students a chance to take courses for college credit before receiving their high school diploma, provide a key strategy for addressing preexisting and pandemic-exacerbated struggles related to college affordability and access, observers say.
The pandemicâs economic impact further has fueled fears over increasing affordability struggles, and concerns over possible learning loss in the past year have some observers worried that students might fall behind in their âcollege readiness.â
Under that backdrop, early college has the potential to play the role of âa great equalizerâ for students, said Manny Cruz, advocacy director for Latinos for Education. Programs seek to build studentsâ confidence and arm them with credits that will allow them to pay less in tuition
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Getting Education Data Right: The Case of High School Admissions
With schools across the country struggling to provide virtual and limited classroom instruction because of the coronavirus, the issue of middle and high school admissions for next fall in many cities constitutes another formidable challenge. In no city is this challenge greater than in New York, home to the largest public school system in the country by far.
In December, Mayor Bill de Blasio put to rest much confusion by explaining modifications to the calendar for high school admissions and allayed mounting concerns about segregation at middle schools by announcing the termination, for at least one year, of all admissions based on grades and test scores.