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Black Students Less Likely Identified for Special Ed When They Have Black Teachers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That can be problematic, to the extent that both of those placements are kind of associated with longer-term student trajectories.” And so, to not find that for the gifted placement was super interesting to me." In the beginning when we started this work, I had that hypothesis.

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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Those lectures became a fundamental first step into his career in higher education, and in 2008, he became special assistant to the director of the TRIO programs at GSU, a series of federally funded programs that assist low-income, first-generation, or otherwise minoritized students attend and graduate college. Dr. Dereck J. Rovaris, Sr.,

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Partnership and Policy for Academic Advising

The University Innovation Alliance

Although he returned to the private sector after his tenure in the Obama Administration, Secretary Duncan generously shared his views on the need for institutions to support student success, the need for government to encourage institutions in this effort, and the urgency for moving ahead with these initiatives. Secretary of Education.