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A Race Scholar

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He says he thought that, after earning the degree, he might return to the Compton school district to work as a curriculum coordinator or literacy specialist. He earned tenured three years later, became a full professor in 2011, and was named the Pritzker Family Endowed Chair of Education in 2018.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. A data literacy workshop series offered each semester helps to foster a data-driven decision-making culture across the university.

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Completion Grants: Innovative Financial Aid for Today's Students

The University Innovation Alliance

Sharon Perry Fantini , Vice Provost for Equity Access and Opportunity at Iowa State University. • So in 2011, we began to pilot a program that requires no application on the student's part. Panelists included: • Tim Renick , Executive Director, National Institute for Student Success at Georgia State University.

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How to Leverage Giving Tuesday for Your School

School & Student Services by Community Brands

Giving Tuesday launched in the United States in 2012 after beginning as an idea in 2011 from the Chicago nonprofit Mary-Arrchie Theater Company. Children’s Literacy Initiative: The Children’s Literacy Initiative (CLI) helps to ensure that low-income students are able to read at or above their grade level.

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Anti-Racist Teachers: Disrupting Resegregation [Overrepresentation] in Special Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Because they are receiving unnecessary services and may not have access to the general education curriculum and classroom. In fact, perceived learning difficulties may result from limited access to academic opportunities, a lack of culturally relevant teaching, low-quality teaching, and resource inequalities. Dr. Donna Y. Shifrer, D.,

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