Equity Placement Teaching 
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 10, 2023
Since 2021, legislatures and governors in 19 states have enacted educational gag orders that restrict teaching and learning about allegedly divisive concepts such as race, racism, and American history. So, when the teaching about race, inequality, and DE&I efforts come under attack, how should higher education leaders respond?
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 6, 2023
On Wednesday, Alabama A&M University, the largest HBCU in the state, launched an effort to tackle the problem: AAMUTeach, a program allowing STEM majors to get a secondary school teaching certification while earning a bachelor’s, without any additional time or cost. If the student likes teaching, they can move to the rest of the program.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
The college will have its own dean of students, director, counselors, academic advisors, and outreach and support staff, and it will draw from existing faculty who have “a demonstrated record of success in teaching Black students,” said Wood. Wood — whose research focuses on racial equity in education — saw an opportunity.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
We must also recognize that, given the Western bias to knowledge production and accumulation, we are trained to view Western knowledge as fundamental to our teaching and understanding of modernity. Our fifth move is decolonizing experiential learning or field placement. chronicity).
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Toldson Although the College Board has significantly expanded its AP courses over the past two decades, they have not effectively addressed longstanding racial equity issues. Beyond the content, the process, procedures and placement of the course within the current system, will do little to help dismantle oppression.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
These two educational fields rely extensively on tests, often exclusively, to make educational and placement decisions that negatively affect Black student school engagement and performance, which contributes to underachievement – performing lower than they are capable of performing, as shared in our opening statements.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 9, 2023
After two years at Coolidge, Gonzales went on to teach at Central Arizona College, where he spent 15 years rising through the ranks to become interim associate vice president of academic affairs. Gonzales said education “was something that I realized quickly that I felt like I was born to do in many ways.
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