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AB 705: Bold Policy, Implications for Equitable Student Success

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For example, the percentage of first-time students enrolling in transfer-level math and English courses within their first year of college rose dramatically between the fall 2015 and fall 2020 cohorts.

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Miami Dade College: A Hispanic Serving Institution Documenting “Servingness” through Community Engagement

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Miami Dade College (MDC), located in Miami, Florida and one of the nation’s largest Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) received the classification in 2015 and is one of a handful of community colleges across the nation to hold the designation. Dr. Marybeth Gasman But why is applying for this Carnegie Classification important for HSIs?

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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). and expanded).

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Researcher-Mentor Challenges Students to Pursue Purpose

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Dr. Shana Stoddard Having first come to Rhodes as a William Randolph Hearst Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in 2015, Stoddard has cemented a role for herself at the school over time, attaining the position of associate professor of chemistry in 2022. “I I knew that I wanted an undergraduate research lab,” Stoddard said. She holds a Ph.D.

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Building Support for a Major

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Then, it became a topic of conversation on campus beyond the curriculum or the field [to be] about wellbeing, safety, experiences, and the silencing of Asian Americans in a variety of ways across the country, including on campus,” he says. He joined in.

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Lifting As They Climb

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Mays Endowed Chair and Professor of Educational Policy Studies, led the association from 2014-2015. Ducommun Endowed Professor (Emerita) in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University, was president in 2011-2012. Dr. Joyce E. King, the Benjamin E. King was followed in 2016-2017 by Dr. Vivian L. Gadsden, the William T.

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Mālama Pono: Rebellious Teacher Preparation Through Hānai Pedagogy

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Today, there are only 2,000 native speakers , but a 2015 Hawaii State Data Center census reported that 5.7% It wasnt until years later that I realized Kumu was training us for activism in a world actively erasing our culture and language.In

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