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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Editor's Note: With the exception of the last section about an Anti-Racist, Culturally Competent Special Education Model, the content in this article comes from a recently accepted journal manuscript. CritSEM: Advancing QuantCrit to examine racialized resegregation in special education. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness.

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Study: Third-Grade Retention Has Positive Effects for Student Outcomes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Holding students back a year may have its benefits, according to a recent study published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Literacy is really important. Nicholas Hartlep, the Robert Charles Billings Chair in Education at Berea College and a former elementary school teacher.

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Supporting Counselor Trainees and Practitioners in the Wake of Racial Trauma

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Despite the profession's growing emphasis on multicultural competence, many counselor education programs and ongoing professional development systems still fall short in preparing trainees and counselors to recognize, process, and effectively address racial stress and trauma.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Completion Grants: Innovative Financial Aid for Today's Students

The University Innovation Alliance

The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) was honored to partner with The Chronicle of Higher Education for its September 29, 2022 panel discussion on innovative financial aid for today's students. So in 2011, we began to pilot a program that requires no application on the student's part. Thu, 11/03/2022 - 06:00. Completion Grants.

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How to Leverage Giving Tuesday for Your School

School & Student Services by Community Brands

Since the event’s inception, thousands of educational institutions have joined in to increase donations for targeted campaigns and annual funds. . Giving Tuesday leverages the power of social media to inspire millions across the world to give back and support the issues and causes that matter most to them, such as education.

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A Race Scholar

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But despite all that, Willowbrook Middle School — it has since been renamed Compton Early College High School — stood tall as a beacon of hope, a powerful symbol of what was possible if educators and policymakers made a serious investment in urban education. Whenever you heard shooting, you just knew the routine. You got down.”

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