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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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Research Underway by Gates Foundation Partners to Better Understand Test-Optional Admission

NACAC's Admitted

Test Scores Aren’t Necessarily Predictive of Success in College The 2008 commission also made two important observations about standardized admission tests. As a result, the commission encouraged colleges to carefully examine the potential distorting effects of admission tests.

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Partnership and Policy for Academic Advising

The University Innovation Alliance

He began new efforts to ensure that colleges and universities provide more transparency around graduation, job placement, and student loan default rates. Prior to his appointment as Secretary of Education, Duncan served as the chief executive officer of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) from 2001 through 2008.