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A Race Scholar

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

During Howard’s second year in the graduate program, Gay, his “academic mother,” suggested that he attend the American Educational Research Association’s meeting in 1996. Almost immediately, he encountered some resistance from educational researchers who claimed that their area of research does not focus on race.

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"We Know More Than What Those Damn Tests Claim to Measure”: How Tests are Inequitable for Black and Other Minoritized Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

What resources and professional standards exist to help the fields of special education and gifted and talented education in adopting equitable instruments and assessment practices and policies (e.g., A mind is a terrible thing to waste (United Negro College Fund ), and a mind is a terrible thing to erase ( Ford, 2011 ).

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