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Instructional Violence Must End: Keeping the Legacy of A. Wade Boykin Alive

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ford and hearts as they seek to provide Black students with rigorous and relevant instructional styles and strategies. Banks is the father of multicultural curriculum culturally relevant and affirming content and materials. Combined and individually, curriculum and/or instruction can traumatize students, in this case Black students.

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A Hope Built on Things Eternal: A Scholar’s Vision for Black Education - Dr. Kevin Lawrence Henry, Jr.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison Career mentors: Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings, Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Dr. Carl Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Dr. His journey to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he would eventually become both student and professor, was equally serendipitous.

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They are Ready! Transforming the Narrative to Engage Black Males in Educational Settings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The recommendations that follow are applicable to Black males in P-12 schools and postsecondary institutions! Below are a few recommendations that will shift the conversation, seeing them from an asset-based paradigm versus a deficit perspective. Center their voices.

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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Combined with the Apple App Store, which first debuted in 2008 with 500 phone applications, in less than 20 years, technology has revolutionized how the average consumer communicates, entertains themselves, and obtains information. Remarkably, of those attending, 32% of all community college attendees are first-generation college students.

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Grassroots Push for Computer Science Education Gears Up

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For close to a year, I have been strategizing and working with Randy Raymond, a software engineer at Google, to make access to computer science education the new “Space Race” and create models that schools can scale to deliver instruction to students.

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Investment in Math Education is Needed to Fuel the STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bridging the gap in access to digital tools, skills training, and a cutting-edge curriculum is essential for empowering underrepresented groups to participate in the tech landscape. Integrating real-world applications of mathematics can help students recognize its value and relevance, thereby enhancing their motivation.

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Panel Promotes Teaching

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

According to IRT associate director and panel moderator Catherine Wong, IRT’s free graduate preparation program provides those accepted with multiple kinds of assistance, including advising, application fee waivers, access to grad school recruiters, and workshops.

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