IECA article featuring Susan Knoppow CEO and Founder of Wow Writing Workshop

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Keren Thoms

Keren Thoms is the marketing coordinator and administrative assistant at Wow Writing Workshop. With a background in health care, she made the leap into marketing in 2021 and hasn’t looked back. Keren brings a unique global perspective to her work, having attended colleges in three different countries. She now lives in the Midwest with her husband, kids, and dogs where she balances creative projects, family life, and plenty of coffee.

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Expert says universities, high schools need to work together It should have been a simple math question. But it stumped more than half of Michigan's fourth-graders last year. Many of them never catch on, even by high school. As a result, remedial education classes are flourishing at colleges and universities. Walk onto any of the state's 28 community colleges, and one of every five students is enrolled in a remedial education course. National data suggests that one in five students at four-year colleges seek remedial coursework, too.
Early college application deadlines are just around the corner. What do you do when your students show you application essays that just don’t seem ready to go?

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