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Former K-12 Teacher Voted AERA President-Elect

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Winn has been elected to a leadership post at the American Educational Research Association (AERA). She was a 2022–2023 fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and is a member of the National Academy of Education.

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Study: Outcomes of Students in Policy Debate Programs Linked to ELA Improvements and Postsecondary Enrollment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The study – published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) – examined data of students in Boston Public Schools during the 2007–08 to 2017–18 school years, of which 3,515 took part in the Boston Debate League.

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Study: Third-Grade Retention Has Positive Effects for Student Outcomes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Holding students back a year may have its benefits, according to a recent study published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Literacy is really important.

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OER23 part one: Higher Education for Good

Catherine Cronin

Higher Education for Good: Criticality, resistance and hope What a joy and a privilege to travel to Inverness, Scotland to participate in the Open Education Conference #OER23 last week.

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A Race Scholar

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

During Howard’s second year in the graduate program, Gay, his “academic mother,” suggested that he attend the American Educational Research Association’s meeting in 1996. He says he thought that, after earning the degree, he might return to the Compton school district to work as a curriculum coordinator or literacy specialist.

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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. Mattison, R.,

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Bullying

SRI Education

Mission I’m possible: Effects of a community-based project on the basic literacy skills of at-risk kindergarteners. Journal of Educational Research, 111 (3), 284–294. Child Trends. K., & P, & Wee, S. Infants & Young Children, 27 , 60–73. link] de Vries, E. Verlinden, M., Rijlaarsdam, J., Jaddoe, V. Verhulst, F.