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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

Since then, I have focused my scholarship on college and career readiness, and STEM for Black males. Once recruited, they want and need to be retained, which requires having anti-racist, culturally competent educators who are advocates, upstanders, and allies.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Use the CSS Profile for Aid From Top Colleges

College Planners of America

The College Board’s College Scholarship Service (CSS) isn’t free, but submitting a CSS Profile application form is an inexpensive way to apply for aid from the institutions that participate in the service. The Profile enables an applicant to be considered for a college’s scholarships, stipends, grants, and loans. The fee is $25.00

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The CSS Profile Can Increase Financial Aid

College Planners of America

In addition to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid ( FAFSA ), some college-bound students complete another application called the College Scholarship Service Profile (the Profile ). The Profile is required by 240 colleges and a number of private scholarship programs. What Is the Profile?

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Use the CSS Profile to Obtain Aid from Colleges

College Planners of America

Second, the College Scholarship Service Profile (CSS Profile) should be submitted by applicants to colleges that participate in the CSS program. This makes the applicants eligible to receive financial aid from these colleges in the form of scholarships and other types of gift aid based on need. Gift aid does not need to be repaid.

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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

More specifically, the authors explain several problems/issues confronting Black male students in P-12 gifted and talented, advanced placement, and special education programs, along with the school-to-prison pipeline – inequitable discipline in the form of suspensions and expulsions.

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