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$25M Foundation Grant Promotes Internships Among Humanities Majors

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Mellon Foundation has awarded a total $25 million in grant funding to five public colleges and universities to establish paid internship programs for humanities majors. To those ends, the humanities internship grants aim to make internship participation more widely available for humanities majors.

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Sacramento State Creates Nation's First Black Honors College

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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. Ford, EHE Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University, said that she is impressed by this effort. "I

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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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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. Dr. Donna Y.

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

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achievement and opportunity gaps, underachievement, excessive and unjust suspensions and expulsions, overrepresentation in special education , and underrepresentation in gifted and talented education, Advanced Placement ), it behooves educators to not just increase minoritized students’ engagement , but to also increase their family’s engagement.

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Standing Up to Attacks on Black History and DE&I

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Army, I enrolled at the University of the District of Columbia, earned a doctorate from Harvard University, and embarked on a career in which I founded and led 20 education and human services organizations. We must continue to invest in and professionalize high-quality DE&I work—and resist efforts to delegitimize it.

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

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When cultural ways of being and cultural differences are framed as assets rather than problems, unnecessary special education referrals, labeling, and placements will decrease. Thus, it is critically important that all students are provided access to a rigorous curriculum in high school to prepare them to be college and/or career ready.

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An Urgent Message to Teachers and School Psychologists Working with Black and Other Minoritized Students

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gifted and talented, Advanced Placement, Honors). Jarrett Murphy is a school psychology doctoral student in the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. Ford is a Distinguished Professor of Education Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. Dr. Donna Y.

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