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$25M Foundation Grant Promotes Internships Among Humanities Majors

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2024

By creating new internship courses, Fresno State will embed career preparation into the curriculum and transform student perspectives around the study of the humanities. ODU will provide internship placements and related programming for 750 humanities students over five years.

Humanities

Humanities Grant Placement Database

Should African Americans Trust the College Board with African American Studies?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The College Board's decision to revise its African American Studies curriculum has come under fire from many who argue that the changes are motivated by political pressure rather than pedagogical considerations. Studies have uncovered various systemic factors that continue to impede equitable access to AP classes. principles."

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Curriculum Equity Placement Success

Sacramento State Creates Nation's First Black Honors College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It’s not just taking any GE class, we’re handpicking GE classes that focus on the Black experience,” said Wood, who noted that the college curriculum will be broadly influenced by Pan-African studies. It’s a specialized, accelerated, elite experience,” he said. Wood is hoping to recruit some of those students to his campus. “In

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Scholars of Urban Education Gather for Solutions-Based Conference

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Ladson-Billings is Professor Emerita and former Kellner Family Distinguished Professor in Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During the COVID pandemic, a number of Black children were only able to access the internet through their smart phones.

Education

Education Placement Instruction Curriculum

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

These two educational fields rely extensively on tests, often exclusively, to make educational and placement decisions that negatively affect Black student school engagement and performance, which contributes to underachievement – performing lower than they are capable of performing, as shared in our opening statements.

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AB 705: Bold Policy, Implications for Equitable Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This surge in access aligns with AB 705’s core objective: to remove gatekeeping mechanisms like placement tests that had historically placed California students in remedial courses, delaying their academic progress. But it is not just about access—it is about building an educational ecosystem that nurtures every student’s potential.

Student success

Student success Success Compliance Equity

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

When cultural ways of being and cultural differences are framed as assets rather than problems, unnecessary special education referrals, labeling, and placements will decrease. When denied accessed to needed advanced courses and opportunities, students underachieve , and the Black-white achievement gaps persist.

Mental health

Mental health Counseling Placement Students

Decolonizing Higher Education Syllabi: Beyond the Aesthetics of the Syllabus

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The legislative ramblings in Florida and other states seeking to remove Black history from the curriculum and revise Black history should give us pause about what historical information students will enter university with. Our fifth move is decolonizing experiential learning or field placement.

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Higher education Education Inclusion Placement

A Clarion Call for Change: Four Black Scholars Reflect on the Critical Need for More Educators of Color

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

For example, we add culture to everything associated with gifted and talented education, Advanced Placement, special education, discipline, college and career readiness, and counseling. In this same spirit, we interrogate measures, theories, and curriculum to expose “cultureblindness” and cultural assaultiveness.

Education

Education Counseling Curriculum Placement

Addressing Community College Enrollment Concerns

NACAC's Admitted

APRIL 16, 2023

Do you have a four-year university in town with an access mission? Academic roadblocks: What trends are the staff in your college’s placement testing office and registrar’s office seeing? This would include the speed and pace of English instruction and the teaching and curriculum approach used for math instruction.)

Community college

Community college Placement Scheduling Instruction

Dear David 2.0: Unmasking the College Board’s Profiteering at Educators’ Expense

The Counseling Geek

MAY 16, 2024

A little background for anyone new or unfamiliar with The College Board The College Board, a major educational “nonprofit” organization in the United States that operates around the world, is perhaps most famously known for its administration of the SAT and Advanced Placement (AP) exams. They don’t get done until 4-5pm.

Education

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Addressing Community College Enrollment Concerns

NACAC's Admitted

APRIL 16, 2023

Do you have a four-year university in town with an access mission? Academic roadblocks: What trends are the staff in your college’s placement testing office and registrar’s office seeing? This would include the speed and pace of English instruction and the teaching and curriculum approach used for math instruction.)

Community college

Community college Placement Scheduling Instruction

Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s

EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Equitable college access and completion has been a major point of focus for the student success community for at least a decade , with good reason. Two-year schools and open-access four-year schools have been innovating around math reforms for over a decade. Replace math placement tests with a “multiple measures assessment.”

Student success

Student success Success Placement Developmental education

Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s

EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Equitable college access and completion has been a major point of focus for the student success community for at least a decade , with good reason. Two-year schools and open-access four-year schools have been innovating around math reforms for over a decade. Replace math placement tests with a “multiple measures assessment.”

Student success

Student success Success Placement Developmental education

CLEP Exams Help Non-Traditional Students Earn a Degree

College Planners of America

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The student receives credits for a college course, exemption from a required course, and/or advanced placement in the curriculum of a bachelor’s degree program. Modern States is a nonprofit education alliance dedicated to college access for all. CLEP exams can earn students up to two years of college credits.

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Mathematics Students Humanities Placement

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Giving all of our students access to contemporary literature that centers Black youth perspectives is not only important in decolonizing literature education but also in presenting a holistic view of Black childhood. We parse underrepresentation and overrepresentation for this student group. Chapter 12: Brown, D. Frazier, R.-M.

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Advising Counseling Mentoring Teaching

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Because they are receiving unnecessary services and may not have access to the general education curriculum and classroom. In fact, perceived learning difficulties may result from limited access to academic opportunities, a lack of culturally relevant teaching, low-quality teaching, and resource inequalities. Dr. Donna Y.

Education

Education Placement Teaching Instruction

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$25M Foundation Grant Promotes Internships Among Humanities Majors

Should African Americans Trust the College Board with African American Studies?

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