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Black Students Less Likely Identified for Special Ed When They Have Black Teachers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Black students in elementary school, particularly Black boys, are less likely to be identified for special education when their teachers are also Black, according to a new report published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). And so, to not find that for the gifted placement was super interesting to me."

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Scholars of Urban Education Gather for Solutions-Based Conference

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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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Hope While Waiting: Healing is Possible

Active Minds

Utilize Project HEAL’s Insurance Navigation Hub About the Organizations Active Minds Active Minds is the nation’s leading nonprofit organization promoting mental health awareness and education for young adults. Active Minds is dedicated to saving lives and to building stronger families and communities.

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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

Once recruited, they want and need to be retained, which requires having anti-racist, culturally competent educators who are advocates, upstanders, and allies. Dr. Erik Hines Hines : As a graduate student in my master’s program, I became aware of test biases when learning about the school counseling profession.

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We are Not an ‘Issue’: We are Your Students of Color!!

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When cultural ways of being and cultural differences are framed as assets rather than problems, unnecessary special education referrals, labeling, and placements will decrease. Career and Technical Education Research, 43 (1), 77-98. c. Disciplinary overrepresentation. Warren, N., & & Hernandez-Gantes, V.M.

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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.

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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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