Mayendia and Blanco got their contracts with old-school persistence.
"This is a breakthrough, the first time we've had federal policies try to move the public schools and the postsecondary systems closer together by demanding preparation in high school and persistence in college," said Michael Kirst, a Stanford University professor emeritus who has studied the proliferation of remedial courses on American campuses.
It contributed to sparking a sustained discussion about the importance of girls' education and the best ways to encourage greater female school access, persistence, achievement across many countries.
Future large-scale girls' education initiatives need to balance improving gender equity in school access, persistence, and achievement with promoting equality in female participation in leadership and decision making roles throughout the education structure.
The continued lack of universal primary school education, the persistence of illiteracy and abject poverty, indicate to us that higher growth rates will prevail over the next 30-50 years.
Medical graduates' unpreparedness seemed to stem mainly from a failure to implement the apprenticeship model of learning in medical school and the persistence of this problem into the internship.
Threat-induced math improvements from elementary school largely persist at least through the first 1 to 2 years of middle school, while evidence for persistence of reading improvements is less consistent.
At ProPublica, Nikole Hannah-Jones writes about a "more subtle, ongoing racial injustice" revealed by the Michael Brown tragedy: the persistence of school segregation, in St . Louisand elsewhere.
Analysis examines the nature and content of studentidentified supports and their perceived influence on access and persistence in school, as well as the mediating role of technology.
Karl Alexander, chair of the Department of Sociology, studies what determines persistence in school attendance and how we can identify precursors to dropping out, while his colleague Stefanie Deluca is working on how vocational education has the potential to boost the graduation rate of young people from low-income households.
