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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Once recruited, they want and need to be retained, which requires having anti-racist, culturally competent educators who are advocates, upstanders, and allies. I believe that this was in the third grade when my district tested all of the children for inclusion in the gifted education programs.

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Scholars of Urban Education Gather for Solutions-Based Conference

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Over 270 sessions were offered at the conference, including a keynote address by Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings, one of the world's most prolific educational researchers. That is why we're here today," he said. Think about remote learning," she said, adding that children struggled to receive their lessons via a small phone screen.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Similarly, our second finding suggests that kindergarten assessments predicted the resegregation of these boys and girls in special education, compared to white girls, by third grade. Minorities are disproportionately underrepresented in special education: Longitudinal evidence across five disability conditions. public schooling.

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