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Neoliberalism And Developmental Education: Complexity And Contradictions In California Community Colleges, Antoaneta Gulea
Neoliberalism And Developmental Education: Complexity And Contradictions In California Community Colleges, Antoaneta Gulea
Journal of Critical Issues in Educational Practice
The egalitarian mission of community colleges to provide an open access to educational opportunities for all often contradicts the high academic standards for college readiness, and therefore establishes the need for developmental education. Beginning in the 1970s, neoliberalism as a form of governmentality gradually invaded schools and public services including developmental education in a community college level. This paper explores the neoliberal influence on developmental education in three aspects: the effect of decreased institutional funding for the community college system and increased cost of higher education for students in developmental education, increased curriculum management and accountability expectations on a state …
International Students’ College Achievement: A Critical Quantitative Perspective, Eyad Alfattal
International Students’ College Achievement: A Critical Quantitative Perspective, Eyad Alfattal
Journal of Critical Issues in Educational Practice
Colleges exert much effort in recruiting international students who bring financial, cultural and educational benefits to the campuses in which they study. On the other hand, little attention is paid to how these students succeed in achieving their educational goals. The study proposed here describes a planned investigation that will help find out more about international students’ success in American colleges. The study will employ a college student achievement model as its theoretical framework, and it will aim at examining relationships between international students’ GPA and graduation rates while controlling for precollege academic performance. This examination will be done while …