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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Banks is the father of multicultural curriculum culturally relevant and affirming content and materials. Both curriculum and instruction must be designed with beneficence in mind to do no harm with the content and how it is delivered, respectively. I want to inform and/or remind readers that Dr. James A. Dr. Donna Y.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Among the larger two-year programs are law enforcement, nursing and human services. Our American Indian students can still learn about their history, their language, their culture by the curriculum that we offer, and non-Native students can learn about American Indian people. On-campus enrollment is approximately 615 students.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Editors of top-tier journals couldn’t comprehend why she chose to focus on Black women instead of Black people generally, and if she wanted to talk about Black women and girls in the courses that she taught, she had to figure out how to slip the material into the pre-designed curriculum. It definitely helped me stay in the role.”

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Going Back to School Means Increasing Black/Minoritized Family Engagement Too

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I like the simple, straightforward definition of engagement set forth by the Connecticut State Department of Education : “Family engagement is a full, equal, and equitable partnership among families, educators, and community partners to promote children’s learning from birth through college and career.” Dr. Donna Y.

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A Different, Ongoing ‘AI’ Problem?in Colleges and Universities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This negation of their humanity and their consequent relegation to sub-human status based on their racial identification provided justification for the pattern of horrific treatment inflicted upon them – a pattern that laid the foundation for the system of chattel slavery later imposed upon millions of hostages stolen from Africa.

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Why We Must Teach African American Studies: A Call to Action

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

● Write about the human costs of racism in democratic institutions such as the legal system, media, and public education. Erasing African American history from the education curriculum is a definitive step toward denying students a right to an excellent, fair education This must be challenged.

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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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Attempts to develop an accurate definition and measure of "intelligence" have been fraught with difficulty and controversy. Curriculum and instruction must be rigorous and relevant. Ford is Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University Dr. Tanya J. Dr. Edward C. Fletcher Jr. Dr. Donna Y.

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