Prof. Zenaida Aguirre-Muñoz has released a progress update from the first phase of "Advancing Educational Opportunity in the Central Valley Project," a research initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Do high school students in the Central Valley, especially students in underserved communities, have equitable access to dual enrollment and Advanced Placement (AP) courses?
You can read about the project's findings about educational inequities in the Central Valley, and about Prof. Aguirre-Muñoz's own experiences of arbitrary barriers to education, in her blog post: https://cvhec.org/what-the-cv-hec-is-happening-blog-oct-2024-ucmerced-pathways-research/
For more details on the project's findings: https://cvhec.org/uc-merced-project-to-improve-college-readiness-completes-first-phase/
Prof. Zenaida Aguirre-Muñoz leads the Language, Learning, and Teaching Lab in the Department of Cognitive & Information Sciences at UC Merced.
