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Teaching Disability Access In A Teaching Of Writing Class, Patricia A. Dunn
Teaching Disability Access In A Teaching Of Writing Class, Patricia A. Dunn
Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education
This essay argues for including in a teaching of writing class information on making documents, media, and other teaching materials accessible for people with disabilities.
College Admissions For L2 Students: Comparing L1 And L2 Readability Of Admissions Materials For U.S. Higher Education, Zachary W. Taylor
College Admissions For L2 Students: Comparing L1 And L2 Readability Of Admissions Materials For U.S. Higher Education, Zachary W. Taylor
Journal of College Access
Advancements in computational linguistics have allowed educational researchers to examine large amounts of text and assess the reading difficulty of that text for speakers whose first language is English (L1), and speakers whose first language is not English (L2). Considering L2 students exploring higher education, extant research suggests these L2 students do not access United States (U.S.) higher education as the same level as their L1 peers. Using popular measures of L1 and L2 readability, the current study analyzes admission instructions from 341 randomly-selected four-year U.S. institutions of higher education and finds L2 readability is more difficult (30.9) than L1 …
Report Critique: Moving On Up? What Groundbreaking Study Tells Us About Access, Success, And Mobility In Higher Ed, Lizbeth Pineda, Rachel Drummond
Report Critique: Moving On Up? What Groundbreaking Study Tells Us About Access, Success, And Mobility In Higher Ed, Lizbeth Pineda, Rachel Drummond
Journal of College Access
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Book Review: The Rhetoric Of Remediation: Negotiating Entitlement And Access To Higher Education, Chad T. Patton
Book Review: The Rhetoric Of Remediation: Negotiating Entitlement And Access To Higher Education, Chad T. Patton
Journal of College Access
For the past 140 years, remedial students have existed in one way or another. In her book The Rhetoric of Remediation: Negotiating Entitlement and Access to Higher Education, Stanley contends that the remedial student has been an important character in U. C. Berkeley's importance in the eyes of the state of California as well as other universities across the nation. Amid many recent political decision affecting higher education and access, Stanley's work is rooted in the history of the remedial student and what that student means to higher education and politics as a whole.