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Study: Outcomes of Students in Policy Debate Programs Linked to ELA Improvements and Postsecondary Enrollment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The study – published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) – examined data of students in Boston Public Schools during the 2007–08 to 2017–18 school years, of which 3,515 took part in the Boston Debate League.

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Dr. Mildred Garcia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Previously, García served as president of CSU Dominguez Hills beginning in 2007, where she was the eleventh female president — and first Latina president — in the California State University system. Mildred García was appointed as the seventh president of California State University, Fullerton last June.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception. Dr. Linda Darling- Hammond The leadership of the national research society that strives to advance knowledge about education and currently boasts a membership of about 25,000 scholars — remained exclusively white until the 1990s.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When Hall was an undergraduate at Bowie State University (2007–12), an HBCU in Maryland, it was a “resource desert” for LGBTQ students. Leyva’s research examines how interlocking systems of power, including racism and cisheteropatriarcy, impact classroom teaching and student support in undergraduate mathematics and STEM education.

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Bullying

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2016; Huang, 2018; Okonofua & Eberhardt, 2015; Tenenbaum & Ruck, 2007). Journal of Educational Research, 111 (3), 284–294. However, scholars have repeatedly found that teachers tend to expect Black children to have poorer behavior than other children, even when their behavior is similar (Gilliam et al.,