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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Scholars of Urban Education Gather for Solutions-Based Conference

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Gloria Ladson-Billings, one of the world's most prolific educational researchers. But that's the reality."

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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

Conversely, some education professionals presume that intelligence tests measure unlearned abilities — abilities independent of or less dependent on instruction and education — and they (mis)interpret low performance on intelligence tests with low cognitive ability and potential. Curriculum and instruction must be rigorous and relevant.

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Addressing Community College Enrollment Concerns

NACAC's Admitted

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.) How are students right out of high school doing on the placement tests?

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

gifted and talented, Advanced Placement, Honors). These stereotypes lead to teachers’ overgeneralization of all Black students, which impacts the instruction given, the school climate, and the supports that they receive or do not receive in schools. Teachers refer, and school psychologists test and evaluate.

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Addressing Community College Enrollment Concerns

NACAC's Admitted

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.) How are students right out of high school doing on the placement tests?

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Best AP Classes for High School Students: CollegeAdvisor x StudyLab

Student Research Foundation

Choosing your Advanced Placement (AP) courses is an important decision, one that can impact both your high school and college career. AP classes are part of CollegeBoard’s Advanced Placement Program. The majority of high schools across the country offer at least one AP course, with some offering a wide variety of courses.