Center for Educational Opportunity (CEO)

Albany State University

In April 2018, CAO awarded Albany State University a five-year grant to establish the Center for Educational Opportunity (CEO) to research ways families may obtain greater access to high-quality K-12 education. The Center’s interdisciplinary approach will promote research, innovation, and inquiry into issues relevant to K-12 education (and beyond) in order to improve products and services within the educational marketplace, especially for those living in fragile communities. The aim of the Center is to find ways, through research, to discover and uncover educational models, accessibility practices, innovations, and opportunities that can be operationalized, sustained, and shared in communities with the greatest need.

CEO Faculty

Founding Director

Kathaleena Monds, Ph.D.

Outreach/Program Coordinator

Joy S. Jones

Supported Research

CEO | A Sacred Space

A Sacred Space

CEO | Rethinking Recruitment

Rethinking Recruitment

ctrforeduopp.org

Center for Educational Opportunity

Albany State University
The Billy C. Black Building, Office 282
504 College Drive
Albany, GA 31705

229-500-2130

07.31.20
Save the Date

Framing and Maintaining a Research Agenda focuses on the steps necessary to frame and maintain an active research agenda. This event is co-sponsored by Albany State University Center for Educational Opportunity and Prairie View A&M Minority Achievement, Creating and High Ability Center. Registration opens soon.
07.31.20
K–12 Student Digital Divide Much Larger Than Previously Estimated and Affects Teachers, Too, New Analysis Shows

With the prospect of another distance learning school year on the horizon due to the Coronavirus pandemic, a new analysis released finds that a full 15 to 16 million public school students across the United States live in households without adequate internet access or computing devices to facilitate distance learning. The analysis, from Common Sense and Boston Consulting Group, also finds that almost 10% of public school teachers (300,000 to 400,000) are also caught in the gap, affecting their ability to run remote classes. The 32-page report, Closing the K–12 Digital Divide in the Age of Distance Learning, fixes a one-year price tag of at least $6 billion and as much as $11 billion to connect all kids at home, and an additional $1 billion to close the divide for teachers.
07.31.20
Black Homeschooling Is A Choice

In some circles, homeschooling has been controversial in the Black community due to the hardships African-Americans faced who fought for equal public educational opportunities. Brown v. Board of Education was passed in 1954 to enforce the integration of public schools for Black and Brown students and their White counterparts. Many Black family members and education activists fought long and hard for those rights. However, nowadays there is a rise in the numbers of Black parents who are choosing to homeschool as a way to protect and do what they believe is best for their children.

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3 days ago
Library of Congress and Rep. McBath K-12 Education Webinar https://t.co/5EY7jBh7Ne via @YouTube

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3 days ago
Issues persist that spurred the 1954 Brown v. Board decision. Discrimination is legislated & codified so thoroughly that it's difficult for the 1 in 10 families in persistent poverty to access opportunity. All of society’s institutions must improve in order for education to do so https://t.co/gtj4Hy79Po

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"The conversation on removing barriers to opportunity must include voices from communities where those barriers are highest." Explore the third report on the State of Opportunity in America from @AdvancingOpps https://t.co/huXnsNGfpB https://t.co/qjTGEJy6hq

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