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Lamar University led the nation in the number of graduate degrees in education awarded to Hispanics during 2010.
The university graduated 342 Hispanics during the year, according to The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, a national magazine dedicated to exploring issues related to Hispanics in higher education.
“In the field of education, Lamar University in Texas led the pack, awarding the most master’s and doctoral degrees to Hispanics,” wrote Mary Ann Cooper, special projects editor for the magazine. Lamar was one of seven Texas schools on the Top 25 list of graduate degrees in education conferred.
“This is clearly good news for Lamar University because we have identified and captured a demographic slice of the state that previously has not been available to Lamar University,” said Kevin Smith, Lamar’s senior associate provost. “It is great news.”
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Texas is the only state in the country to implement all key college and career readiness policies identified by the national school reform group Achieve, the organization said in a new report today.
Achieve conducts an annual survey of all
50 states and the District of Columbia to determine whether they have implemented strategic college and career readiness policies. Texas was the only state to receive a check mark in the five areas Achieve graded – alignment of curriculum standards, graduation requirements, assessments, P-20 data systems and accountability systems.
The accountability measure examined whether a state annually reported school performance information publicly, set state performance goals, provided school-level incentives and employed measurements that were weighted heavily towards college and career readiness indicators. Texas was the only state that achieved all four accountability criteria.
The Achieve report called Closing the Expectations Gap 2011 cited Texas for its implementation of best practices, saying:
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