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AERA Names Dr. Tabbye Chavous as New Executive Director

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Chavous The American Educational Research Association (AERA) announced Monday that Dr. Tabbye M. Chavous, currently vice provost for equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer at the University of Michigan, brings more than 25 years of experience as a scholar, researcher, and academic administrator to the position.

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Scholars of Urban Education Gather for Solutions-Based Conference

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Over 270 sessions were offered at the conference, including a keynote address by Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings, one of the world's most prolific educational researchers. During the COVID pandemic, a number of Black children were only able to access the internet through their smart phones.

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

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To frame it any other way dismisses both the historical and contemporary contexts and centrality of race and racism in decisions to remove these specific students from the general education system, forcing them into a system that suppresses their opportunities and contributes to miseducation. curriculum and instruction, and assessment).

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Report Provides Frank Data on Black PhD Holders in STEM Fields

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It goes back to the support that they have,” said Dr. Erin Dunlop Velez, director of educational research at RTI International and one of the report’s authors. Espinosa said this exposes students at MSIs to research opportunities and mentoring. “If you look at Black students who get STEM PhDs, so many of them start at HBCUs.

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We are Not an ‘Issue’: We are Your Students of Color!!

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Since their creation, tests have disproportionately hindered access to gifted and talented education (GATE), AP, college acceptance (particularly to elite higher education institutions), scholarships, and so on. Career and Technical Education Research, 43 (1), 77-98. Warren, N., & & Hernandez-Gantes, V.M.

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"We Know More Than What Those Damn Tests Claim to Measure”: How Tests are Inequitable for Black and Other Minoritized Students

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American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, & N ational Council on Measurement in Education ; Association of School Psychologists; Association of School Counselors; Council for Exceptional Children; National Association for Gifted Children)?

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Necessary infrastructure to support interdisciplinary programs

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Faculty may also feel at capacity already, in teaching out the curriculum for existing majors, and feel they can’t add another obligation. A challenge for launching interdisciplinary programs is that faculty and deans can fail to see how participation will help their bottom line. Learn more about the program and future cohorts.