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Virginia — Each year the Fairfax NEDP program recognizes one of its students with the Exceptional Initiative Award. In August 2008 the recipient was Yousef Chashi.
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Maryland — NEDP is a program that opens new doors and empowers individuals to pursue their goals and dreams. Many of these students overcome obstacles to complete their NEDP program. For all of them, receiving a diploma changes their lives.
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New York — Tabatha Bush of Fine, New York, was chosen as a 2007 Outstanding NYACCE — New York Association for Continuing/Community Education Student of the Year — for overcoming great obstacles to achieve her high school diploma.
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New York — The following three stories are from the January 2009 graduation ceremony held at Western Suffolk BOCES in Dix Hill, New York.
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Maryland — Reco Williams is an October 2007 graduate of the Howard Community College NEDP program and was a speaker at the diploma recognition exercises. She is the mother of seven children, six daughters and one son.
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ESL students at Folsom Cordova Adult School successfully incorporate their different cultures into the classroom experience. Students are able to share information about their culture while practicing English language and presentation skills.
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Beginning in the fall of 2010, the Corona-Norco Adult School English as a Second Language (ESL) Leadership Team sought to improve student performance outcomes by actively examining student engagement.
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The ESL department at Mt. San Antonio College created an online data entry system in which all students provide up-to-date information as they progress through the levels of the ESL Program.
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Students in the English as a Second Language (ESL) Program at ABC Adult School host
International Day, a festival to present the culture, food, art, and traditional costumes of
students’ native countries.
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New York — Wayne-Finger Lakes Times, NY (newspaper article)
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".....The CASAS system lets adult education faculty know who their students are, why they are in the program, and what their outcomes are, whether they be “completers” or “leavers.”
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Ten scholarship winners were selected from the 200 students who participated in the 2012 program in Salvador. US-Brazil Connect, Red Rocks Community College, the Denver Center for International Education, and other partners hosted the scholars in a leadership exchange in October.
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CASAS Content Standards for Reading and Mathematics and Common Core State Standards for Reading, Language, and Mathematics: A Comparative Analysis
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A recent report demonstrates that adult ESL learners enrolled in distance learning blended programs have significantly higher completion and persistence rates and reading gains than students participating in distance-only or classroom-only programs.
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Science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) jobs are growing at three times the rate of other occupations, and workers in these fields earn an average of 26% more than workers in other fields. This brief from the U.S. Department of Commerce reviews current statistics and trends surrounding STEM jobs.
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CASAS recommends the Adult Low-Level Literacy Curriculum to help improve Healthcare access