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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.

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Lifting As They Climb

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The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception. Dr. Linda Darling- Hammond The leadership of the national research society that strives to advance knowledge about education and currently boasts a membership of about 25,000 scholars — remained exclusively white until the 1990s.

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Community-Engaged Scholar Dr. DeLeon Gray Believes in the Value of Hyperlocal Work

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In 2018, Gray and his colleagues won the Best Article Award for a publication in Educational Psychologist, titled “Black and Belonging at School: A Case for Interpersonal, Instructional, and Institutional Opportunity Structures.” We’re talking about youth all the time at these conferences; why wouldn’t they be there?”

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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

For the most part, low achievement and aptitude test scores are associated with poor educational experiences, disengagement, stereotype threat, and a host of other factors that are environmental or social rather than cultural, inherited, and biological. Curriculum and instruction must be rigorous and relevant.

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PowerSchool and EAB Partner to Simplify College Admissions and Expand College Access for Millions of Students

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PowerSchool supports over 50 million students in more than 90 countries and over 16,000 customers, including more than 90 of the top 100 districts by student enrollment in the United States.

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From Research and Theory Into Practice: hooks’ Homeplace Matters in the Educational Lives of Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

instructional practices, curriculum development, teacher-student relationships, classroom climate, etc.) link] Researchers acknowledge how the experiences of Black autistic students and their families are virtually absent from educational research and research about autistic people (Hannon & Hannon, 2020; Malone et al.

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Survey Examines College Enrollment Amid Post Pandemic Decline

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Harris, a senior fellow in the Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings and founding director of the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans at Tulane University, has also noted in his research how the pandemic has negatively affected academic confidence. Dr. Douglas N.