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Instructional Violence Must End: Keeping the Legacy of A. Wade Boykin Alive

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Banks is the father of multicultural curriculum culturally relevant and affirming content and materials. Both curriculum and instruction must be designed with beneficence in mind to do no harm with the content and how it is delivered, respectively. I want to inform and/or remind readers that Dr. James A.

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Fuentes Earns the AAHHE Mildred GarcĂ­a Founders' Award

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David Fuentes Fuentes is associate dean in the College of Education at William Paterson University, where he began his career in higher education as an assistant professor of teacher education in 2012. in curriculum and instruction from the Pennsylvania State University. He serves as co-director of the Center for Teaching Excellence.

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Cultural Competence: A Critical Skill for Today’s Police Officers

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Some officers believed the police academy fell short by not delivering a community history curriculum related to their eventual field assignments. These findings are similar to an earlier study of police academy graduates in Oakland, California, that found only 34% of officers believed they were prepared for field deployment (Sedevic, 2012).

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Experts Gathered to Discuss Challenges Facing Higher Education

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When Dirks first arrived at the University of California, Berkeley in 2012, where he served as chancellor, the state’s allocations amounted to 12% of the university budget. At Columbia University, undergraduate students are required to take a core curriculum of classes that include humanities.

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Georgian Court University Boasts Women-Led Majority Leadership

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The school went co-educational in 2012, but its concern for women remains. It was in our curriculum. So women in leadership is not new to our institution by any stretch of the imagination. And because it's already built into the culture, students are expecting that dynamic. They expect women to be leaders."

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

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Because they are receiving unnecessary services and may not have access to the general education curriculum and classroom. curriculum and instruction, and assessment). In fact, these resegregated practices cause short-term and long-term harm for Students of Color (National Center for Learning Disabilities, 2020). Hillemeier, M., &

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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Connecting Black students with each other made them feel stronger and more determined to support each other through the curriculum. “It The four-year graduation rate for students who entered in 2012 was 52.8%. Students, she says, felt isolated in engineering because they were often the only Black students in some of their classes.

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