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NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade Gifts $3M for Literacy, Scholarships

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Tragil Wade-Johnson Summer Reading Program, named after Wade’s sister, has extensively reduced the “summer slide” in reading achievement among Milwaukee school children since 2015. Literacy is a core focus area in our efforts to improve lives,” said Wade-Johnson. “We

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JSTOR's Digital Archives Now Reach Over Half a Million Incarcerated Learners

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But with the revival of a way for those in prison to better access higher education, per the Second Chance Pell pilot program in 2015 , ITHAKA saw the potential to do more. We don't know if it’s because they're bored or they're being instructed in a certain way,” she said.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A data literacy workshop series offered each semester helps to foster a data-driven decision-making culture across the university. To have that entire program delivered and the instruction take place in Spanish is very intentional for the students that come to us and the employment that they seek.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

culturally relevant and sustaining teaching) and high-quality instruction (i.e., curriculum and instruction, and assessment). Similarly, our second finding suggests that kindergarten assessments predicted the resegregation of these boys and girls in special education, compared to white girls, by third grade. and expanded). Morgan, P.

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2015; Wolke et al., 2016; Huang, 2018; Okonofua & Eberhardt, 2015; Tenenbaum & Ruck, 2007). 2015; de Vries et al., 2015, November). Mission I’m possible: Effects of a community-based project on the basic literacy skills of at-risk kindergarteners. 2018; Sigurdson et al., 2018; Lereya et al.,