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Foundation Awards $116M Grant to LaGuardia Community College

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Comprehensive student support services will also be available, such as career advising, preparation for job interviews, job placement, childcare, and financial literacy training. The collective will include specialized shops, labs, and classrooms for hands-on instruction and training.

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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

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Conversely, some education professionals presume that intelligence tests measure unlearned abilities — abilities independent of or less dependent on instruction and education — and they (mis)interpret low performance on intelligence tests with low cognitive ability and potential. Curriculum and instruction must be rigorous and relevant.

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Scholars of Urban Education Gather for Solutions-Based Conference

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Ladson-Billings is Professor Emerita and former Kellner Family Distinguished Professor in Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Gloria Ladson-Billings, one of the world's most prolific educational researchers. But that's the reality."

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National University Students Given Access to Work-Based Learning Via Online Platform

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Almost 200 NU students have completed a work-based learning placement with an employer through Riipen-integrated NU courses, Savory said. It is yet to be seen what the partnership between NU and the company will look like moving forward, according to Milliron.

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Anti-Racist Teachers: Disrupting Resegregation [Overrepresentation] in Special Education

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These results suggest that teachers’ deficit-based evaluations and early biased assessments, during kindergarten, are determining a de facto segregated placement for Black and Latinx students. culturally relevant and sustaining teaching) and high-quality instruction (i.e., curriculum and instruction, and assessment).

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Going Back to School Means Increasing Black/Minoritized Family Engagement Too

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achievement and opportunity gaps, underachievement, excessive and unjust suspensions and expulsions, overrepresentation in special education , and underrepresentation in gifted and talented education, Advanced Placement ), it behooves educators to not just increase minoritized students’ engagement , but to also increase their family’s engagement.

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An Urgent Message to Teachers and School Psychologists Working with Black and Other Minoritized Students

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gifted and talented, Advanced Placement, Honors). These stereotypes lead to teachers’ overgeneralization of all Black students, which impacts the instruction given, the school climate, and the supports that they receive or do not receive in schools. Teachers refer, and school psychologists test and evaluate.

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