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Foundation Awards $116M Grant to LaGuardia Community College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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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. public schooling. culturally relevant and sustaining teaching) and high-quality instruction (i.e.,

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

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Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs.

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How the Work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was About Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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The program’s selective buying campaigns and demonstrations pushed companies that had discriminated against Blacks to provide access to jobs, product placements, service contracts, and advertising dollars. Companies were compelled to open positions that Blacks previously did not have access to.

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Where Do We Go From Here?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We have witnessed alarming attacks and the prohibiting of the College Board Advanced Placement African American Studies course in selected states. School libraries and their dedicated librarians have been targeted, as have public libraries that have helped ensure literacy and access to books for all.

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