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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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How to Address the Dearth in Black Male Teachers

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Strachan, who is a member of the Board of the Alabama Science Teachers Association (ASTA), holds a doctorate in science education from Morgan State University; a Master of Secondary Education (biology) from Alabama A&M; and a B.S. in biology from Mount Allison University.

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Replacing Affirmative Action with ‘Positive Practices’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Organizational exemplars who have been selected by their peers to lead national scholarly organizations include such esteemed figures as Aldon Morris from the American Sociological Association, Gloria Ladson-Billings from the American Education Research Association, and Caroline Turner from the Association for the Study of Higher Education.

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

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Gray is also codesigning lapel pins with his mentees and selling them to raise money for their attendance at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). This year, Gray has a presidential session on “A Cocurricular Model for Supporting the Next Generation of Equity-Focused Educational Psychologists.”

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Researcher Draws on Self-Discipline in Pursuit to Combat Alzheimer’s Disease

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Agbomi has worked closely with mentors there to investigate and research self-organizing neural units to model ischemic stroke and other neuropathology.

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Research in Action: Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson

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Sheneka Williams, a professor and chair of the Department of Educational Administration at MSU, came to know Jackson tangentially when she was a graduate student at Vanderbilt University about 20 years ago.

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

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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. Family and school partnership to build homeplace and protect Black autistic joy. Theory into Practice.

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