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Law School's Enrollment Crisis? Looking Past the Headlines

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Tuition dependence increases as law school selectivity (and resulting salaries and job opportunities) decrease: private schools with the lowest selectivity (those with a median LSAT score of 152 or less) received an average of 95% of their revenue from tuition in 2012-13. This puts law schools in a bind.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These results suggest that teachers’ deficit-based evaluations and early biased assessments, during kindergarten, are determining a de facto segregated placement for Black and Latinx students. public schooling. culturally relevant and sustaining teaching) and high-quality instruction (i.e., Hillemeier, M., & & Maczuga, S.

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Community Colleges’ Essential Role in Workforce Development

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A study by the Aspen Institute found that partnerships between community colleges and businesses lead to increased program quality, student success, and job placement rates. Providing career counseling and job placement services to learners to enhance career readiness and employability.

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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

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More specifically, the authors explain several problems/issues confronting Black male students in P-12 gifted and talented, advanced placement, and special education programs, along with the school-to-prison pipeline – inequitable discipline in the form of suspensions and expulsions. Chapter 9: Harris, P.C. Byrd, J. , Seward, M.D.

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DACA, a program created in 2012 by executive order was meant to provide protections to undocumented immigrants who came stateside as children. Ron DeSantis’s administration blocking initial plans to pilot College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies in Florida high schools.