Although higher parental education is associated with stronger student outcomes over all, the report found significant variation in completion rates within each parental education category. Among applicants classified as first generation-defined as students whose parents did not complete a bachelor's degree-six-year completion rates range from 58 percent for students whose parents have no college experience to 78 percent for those whose parents both hold an associate degree, a 20-percentage-point gap.
Acting as navigators and coaches in high-poverty schools, site coordinators from the nonprofit Communities in Schools (CIS) help students access resources both within and outside of school, including tutoring, food aid, housing and health services. CIS is the nation's largest program of its kind, serving nearly 2 million students in more than 3,000 schools - nearly three times bigger than Head Start.
Last year, Oxford University Press actually named "brain rot" the "Oxford Word of the Year." They offer a more formal definition: "the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging. Also: something characterized as likely to lead to such deterioration."
We've long recognized CPL's benefits for students. Learners who receive CPL credits are more likely to complete their degrees (49 percent vs. 27 percent for those without) and, on average, they earn 17.6 additional credits, finish nine to 14 months sooner and save between $1,500 and $10,200 in tuition costs ( CAEL). But what's often overlooked is CPL's power to transform relationships between educational institutions and employers-creating a win-win-win for students, institutions and industry.
A large-scale study revealed that students paired with more experienced partners in introductory programming courses often had poorer outcomes, attributing this to decreased effort and understanding.
