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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Therefore, we conducted empirical research to study the extent that anti-racist teachers can disrupt resegregation in special education , using nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-2011. public schooling. culturally relevant and sustaining teaching) and high-quality instruction (i.e., Prufrock Press.

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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

These two educational fields rely extensively on tests, often exclusively, to make educational and placement decisions that negatively affect Black student school engagement and performance, which contributes to underachievement – performing lower than they are capable of performing, as shared in our opening statements. Dr. Erik M.

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Dear David 2.0: Unmasking the College Board’s Profiteering at Educators’ Expense

The Counseling Geek

A little background for anyone new or unfamiliar with The College Board The College Board, a major educational “nonprofit” organization in the United States that operates around the world, is perhaps most famously known for its administration of the SAT and Advanced Placement (AP) exams.

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Franklin & Marshall College Names Dr. Andrew Rich as 17th President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of Rich's notable achievements at CCNY was the formation of a Public Service Career Hub, which more than doubled student placement in public service internships and jobs. Truman Scholarship Foundation from 2011 to 2019, where he oversaw the prestigious federal program supporting future public service leaders.

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A Decade Later: The Flint Water Crisis

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

By 2011, the city held a $25 million deficit. Emergency management, and the placement of emergency managers who have not been voted for by the city they govern, is a practice that Pauli called “a very strikingly un-American, autocratic form of governance.” “I