School of Education Center for Postsecondary Readiness and Success
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Spring Valley Building , Room 471 on a map
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20016-8030 United StatesCenter For Postsecondary Readiness and Success (CPRS)
Reimagining students’ aspirations and futures through college and career opportunities
CPRS—Center for Postsecondary Readiness and Success: Founded in 2018, the Center for Postsecondary Readiness and Success concentrates its research, professional development opportunities, and knowledge dissemination on improving the postsecondary opportunities for students who are historically disenfranchised and underrepresented on college campuses. We foster a collaborative approach to research in which we work alongside our community partners and school practitioners (e.g., school counselors, teachers, administrators) to increase the rate of college and career readiness. Practitioners and policymakers can then use findings from our research to effect change.
CPRS’s mission is to disrupt “colorblind” practices and policies in college/career access by working alongside community partners, policymakers, and school practitioners.
The Center aims to dismantle systemic racist and oppressive practices and policies in college and career readiness and access by focusing on the following four areas:
- Professional Development: The Center provides virtual and in-person professional development opportunities for related stakeholders---educators, school counselors, college advisors, school leaders.
- Data, Research & Evaluation: The Center conducts research that seeks to dismantle a host of systemic policy and practice challenges in postsecondary preparation and readiness systems in P-12 settings.
- Youth Programming: The Center conducts research that seeks to dismantle a host of systemic policy and practice challenges in postsecondary preparation and readiness systems in P-12 settings.
- Advocacy: The Center conducts research that seeks to dismantle a host of systemic policy and practice challenges in postsecondary preparation and readiness systems in P-12 settings.
CPRS in the News
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SOE Dean Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy publishes The “Other CRT” — Culturally Responsive Teaching — Can Truly Make a Difference in The Hill.
- SOE Dean Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy publishes We Must Protect Black Students in SWAAY.
Latest Resources
Please check out our latest resources below:
CPRS Community Impact
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Dean Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy's new book, Antiracist Counseling in Schools and Communities, to be published on September 8, 2021 by the American Counseling Association! Learn about the book details here!
- Check out Antiracist School Counselor Preparation: Expanding on the Five Tenets of the Transforming School Counseling Initiative article!
