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Twelfth Grade Math and College Access

Leonard Wainstein, Carrie E. Miller, Meredith Phillips, Kyo Yamashiro, Tatiana Melguizo UCLA Los Angeles Education Research Institute (2023) Students’ academic preparation during high school, including the courses they take, influences their educational and economic success in adulthood. Research on the association between course taking and academic or economic outcomes consistently suggests that taking a more advanced math curriculum in high school improves students’ […]

Progress and Potential: Considering the Question of Racial Equity in CA AB705

Melguizo, T., Cooper, S., Kurlaender, M., Bensimon, E.M. Pullias Center for Higher Education (2020) California’s movement toward ending remedial education in community colleges through Assembly Bill 705 employs the power of policy as a means for racial justice. It is amply documented that Black, Latinx, and Indigenous students have for many years been disproportionately placed in remedial English and Mathematics […]

Tatiana Melguizo: Charting a Path Away from Developmental Education Starts in California

The Pullias Center’s Tatiana Melguizo discusses her research team’s dive into California’s historic AB705 legislation and why community colleges across the country should pay attention. The California community college system has had to deal with two major developments in the past two years. First, the state passed Assembly Bill 705 (AB705), which required colleges to place students directly in transfer-level […]

Pullias Center Hosts Invitational Conference on Implementation of AB705

January 20, 2021January 20, 2021 pulliasadmin Math equity, Pullias News AB705 math equity

A group of researchers, policymakers, program officers, and advisory board members met in December 2020 to discuss research studies on the implementation of AB705. In January 2018, California passed AB705, a bill that requires community colleges to maximize the probability that a student will enter and complete transfer-level coursework in English and math within a one-year timeframe. In the past, […]

The Equity Cost of Inter-Sector Math Misalignment: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Community College Student Outcomes

Federick Ngo and Tatiana Melguizo (2020) A new study explores the equity cost of math misalignment by examining whether it is especially detrimental for these college-ready students to begin college in developmental math courses. Researchers summarize results from a study on the experience of inter-sector math misalignment (ISMM), when students who were deemed “college-ready” by high school standards were placed in […]

Tatiana Melguizo: Let’s Make Math Equity in Higher Education a Reality

January 14, 2020January 19, 2020 pulliasadmin Math equity, Pullias Voices, Uncategorized federick ngo math equity math pathways tatiana melguizo

A substantial majority of low-income, first-generation and racially-minoritized students begin their college journeys in community colleges. Rigorous empirical research nationwide has documented that a major road block for community college students to earn a certificate, an associate degree (AA), or transfer to a four-year college, is placement in developmental math and English courses. There is a plethora of research documenting […]

Math Equity Convening Tackles Tough Questions Around AB705 Implementation

January 14, 2020January 19, 2020 pulliasadmin Math equity, Pullias News AB705 math equity math pathways tatiana melguizo

In December, 2019, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners gathered at the University of Southern California for a full-day Math Equity Convening hosted by The Pullias Center for Higher Education and facilitated by the center’s own Dr. Tatiana Melguizo to discuss developmental education policies in Los Angeles community colleges and how colleges can successfully adapt to the new demands of AB705 governing […]