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Common Core Conversations In Ct: Analyzing Public Testimonies, Richelle Benjamin
Common Core Conversations In Ct: Analyzing Public Testimonies, Richelle Benjamin
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The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is an effort to minimize the learning gap between high- and low-achieving students in the United States by providing a set of standards all students must meet by the end of each grade level. Although 43 states have adopted the CCSS, there are varied opinions on whether this new reform will create positive change within America’s school systems. This research examined the opinions of citizens in Connecticut by analyzing written testimonies from a public hearing that took place in Hartford on March 12, 2014. The results show that two main groups expressed support of …
Exploring Daca Recipients' Access To Higher Education In Connecticut, Chloe V. Shiras
Exploring Daca Recipients' Access To Higher Education In Connecticut, Chloe V. Shiras
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Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) recipients represent a new and somewhat unexplored population within the undocumented immigrant community. Having only been introduced three years ago, they live within a state of liminality, legally present in the United States for the first time but with the understanding that it can be stripped from them without a moments warning. DACA is an executive order announced by Obama in 2012, which stated that certain DREAMers (young undocumented immigrants who had been brought to the United States by their parents at a young age) would receive temporary relief from deportation, a work permit, …