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Former K-12 Teacher Voted AERA President-Elect

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Winn has been elected to a leadership post at the American Educational Research Association (AERA). She won the AERA Early Career Award in 2012 and the Qualitative Research SIG’s 2015 Outstanding Book Award for Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry with Youth and Communities (SAGE, co-edited with D.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception. Dr. Linda Darling- Hammond The leadership of the national research society that strives to advance knowledge about education and currently boasts a membership of about 25,000 scholars — remained exclusively white until the 1990s. Dr. Joyce E.

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A Culturally Responsive Counselor

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mayes has excelled as a scholar and researcher to the extent that she has published over 44 peer-reviewed articles and 18 book chapters. She also received a 2015 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association.

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OER23 part one: Higher Education for Good

Catherine Cronin

For me, the OER Conference is always special – both because of the warmth and openness of the community as well as the critical focus on open education research and practice.

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Research in Action: Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Sheneka Williams, a professor and chair of the Department of Educational Administration at MSU, came to know Jackson tangentially when she was a graduate student at Vanderbilt University about 20 years ago. Jackson easily won him over at their first meeting.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Social Justice Research, 28, 318-338. Minorities are disproportionately underrepresented in special education: Longitudinal evidence across five disability conditions. Minorities are disproportionately underrepresented in special education: Longitudinal evidence across five disability conditions. The mismeasure of man (Rev.

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Reconciling Contrasting Findings on Perceptions of Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A Gallup poll was released, bearing terrible news: only 36% of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education, down 12 percentage points from 2018 and 21 percentage points from 2015, when more than half of U.S. 73% agreed that higher education plays a role in national prosperity and development.