Month: May 2022

When thinking about higher education and academic success, there is this huge push to explore preparation gaps, enrollment and retention disparities, and matriculation of diverse students in academia. Some research on diverse students in postsecondary environments takes a deficit-approach focusing on measurable outcomes like standardized testing that situates underrepresented students negatively in the literature (Martin

The full-length American Journal of Education article by Hardy and Campbell can be accessed here. Standards reform in the United States, and in many other countries around the world, has been a staple of educational reform agendas for decades. However, how these standards come about, including insights into the ‘messiness’ of their genesis, and the variety of