The New York Times
A university program for disadvantaged adolescents could revolutionize admission to the best universities
WASHINGTON – When Di’Zhon Chase’s mastermind took the opportunity to enroll in a conference hosted by Harvard University, she created the podium, and only Ivy League students would be 3200 more kilometers of distance from its native city, Gallup, New Mexico. “Never before is Harvard; it’s a word not to mention’s a Gallup poll, ” Chase said. ‘It’s not like the adults are hoping for us. I do not think that sea because of the screen in ours, because he has many things in our country ”. Without embargo, in the fall of 2019, together with a small group of students from all over the country, Chase participated in an experiment that proposed the proposal to redefine the opportunities for students that, however, they were in an unfavorable environment. Through an initiative launched by a fine-tuned organization with a seat in New York, the National Education Equity Lab, student sciences are practically declining and some of the best universities in the country are already distinguished in their credit validation courses. antes de salir del bachillerato. The Equity Lab enrolls more than 300 students from 11th and 12th grade to very poor preparatory students in 11 cities all over the country at the Harvard University School. , unknown by Professor Elisa Nuut. These bachelors are completed with the level required in the course designed for students accepted at Harvard: listen to the chairs, write the exams, edit the essays, and evaluate them based on the same criteria. The objective of this pilot program was to “reinvent and amplify the objectives and responsibilities of the universities” and to look for students among the unfavorable entourage procedures “with the same enthusiasm and existence with which to identify the outstanding athletes”, and the Executive Director of Equity Lab. Some programs, such as QuestBridge, for decades have been intentional, with some success, to enable disadvantaged students to be promoted to the highest levels of higher education, but the Equity Lab work does not serve as an intermediary to motivate students in academic terms. brindarles confianza y prepararlos para el rigor de las universidades competitivas. Initial results are obvious, Cornfeld said: “The talent of our country is distributed in a uniform manner, but the opportunities are not”. In short, the experiment has challenged the highest levels of higher education, many of which have maintained that the poor representation of students in disadvantaged communities in their institutions is a problem of preparation that is under control. “All these schools are highly perforated as’ ‘We want diversity, but we do not encounter the chicos’ – and it is probable that we can build a fluid system”, said Robert Balfanz, investigator of the professor in the Center for Social Organization of the Schools of the Faculty of Education of the Johns Hopkins University. Of the students who will finish the course in the autumn of 2019 (92 per cent of the students are color and 84 per cent of women are eligible to receive free mortgages), 89 per cent will receive and receive four credits from the School of Harvard University Extension, except that it is accepted by other universities in a generalized manner. In fact, 86 students have taken courses and obtained credit credits through a consortium of experiments and constant expansion, which now includes the Universities of Yale, Cornell, Howard and the State University of Arizona, Asia as at the University of Connecticut. The experiment provided an opportunity to evaluate the nature of admissions frameworks in reputable institutions. “We can not support equality in higher education unless we increase primary and secondary education opportunities,” said Martha Pollack, president of Cornell University. Jeremiah Quinlan, Rector of Admissions for New Students at the University of Yale, points out that this collaborative collaboration is a series of academic evaluations — university course qualifications and recommendations from other professors — in addition to these points. “Traditionally, we do not accept students from community charities or preparatory classes,” Quinlan said, “and there are generations of workers who love to excel.” This semester, Equity Lab attended about 1,500 students attending 75 of the most populous schools in 35 cities. Various school districts and universities are competing to unite in the consortium, which will increase to reach 10,000 students by the year 2022. Chase, 19 years old, was among the 63 per cent of students in the pilot program who will complete the course Harvard University has a grade of A or B. Although other graduates of its preparatory schools, it is thought to be a university of the state, which is mainly assisted by alumni of the Navajo Nation. In addition, now he is a first-year student at Columbia University. “Tenia suenños y aspiraciones, pero me faltaba pensar: ‘En verdad puedo assistir a estos lugare donde las persona hace tantas cosas apasionantes”, commented Chase. “But now you can do it”. The Equity Lab program differs from the university credit validation study programs that are available to many undergraduate students in the workforce that is not restricted by geography or selective access. An analysis of the most recent data of the civil rights at the federal level of the Center for Investigation at Community Universities, a part of the Faculty of Education of the University of Columbia, shows that white students enroll in traditional double courses the black students, and the black students and native students study the percentage of participation most in the Advanced Education courses (AP, by its seal in English), the indicator used to indicate the aptitude of admission to the university. Although classes are free for students, educational institutions cost $ 250 per person — although some courses, such as Harvard University, cost up to $ 1,800 per semester — and school districts are worth it. costs or using a merger of state, local and philanthropic foundations. Balfanz signaled that the consortium was only approved by the fact that it has always been at the forefront of universities: talent and technology. “We will combine many powerful components, launching the four most renowned four states of the United States and its function,” he said. “We must understand that it is not available to all, because it is an extravagant idea.” Robert Runcie, Superintendent of Broward’s Public Schools in South Florida, has been a co-chair for two years before joining Equity Lab and offering his students the Yale University Psychology and Good Life course. This district, which has been impacted by the tiroteo at the Parkland School in 2018, has joined the consortium this year and enrolled 240 students in its initial preparations that will begin taking the course this month. Laurie Santos, a professor of psychology at the University of Yale who shares the substance of well-being, mentions that depression and the attitude observed on campus are the idea for the course. Santos identifies with the bachelors of his group: also the tuft that adapts to Harvard to come from a huge public preparation. “It’s like being in a place where circles do not belong,” commented Santos. Donovan Blount, 17, a Far Rockaway, Queens, New York resident, has always thought about going to college, but his mother gave up his studies and his father never finished college. “I think you are intelligent”, commented, “but I never had to give it to myself”. Taking the bachelor’s degree at a Brooklyn school focused on technology, transportation was a problem. In its local preparatory school, it ends quickly in the work of the only available IT course, which obtains additional credits as a tutor for other alumni. Tomo Advanced Training courses run throughout the bachelor’s class, including calculation. However, the only indicator available to try is the list to enter the university (its AP). “When I received my results he said: ‘Well, he has no capacity for going to university, I think he’ ‘,’ he recorded. The subject of “Introduction to Engineering” from the State University of Arizona was awarded to the Equity Lab and the first place to be among the 50 students in the course. “At the moment I think: ‘Puedo lograrlo’ ‘, comment. Blount also published the poetry course at Harvard University and is now enrolled in his second course at Cornell University, “Macrodatos para macroproblemas de politique”. He also added other universities — Cornell, Duke, Columbia, and Howard — to his list of applications, in which he predominated the plants of the New York State University. “Now there is a university like a loophole against a series of crimes that were committed to prevent it from happening,” he said. This article originally appeared in The New York Times. © 2021 The New York Times Company