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Former K-12 Teacher Voted AERA President-Elect

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Scott is a professor and the Birgeneau Distinguished Chair in Educational Disparities at the University of California, Berkeley in the School of Education. Winn is the Chancellor’s Leadership Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Davis. She has been an active member of AERA since 2000.

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

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NaYoung Hwang Grade retention, the practice of having students repeat a grade if they do not pass certain proficiency thresholds, has been argued to help children develop their reading and literacy skills in early grades, preparing them for educational pursuits in the future. Literacy is really important.

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Phyllis Buchanan

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For DuPont’s Phyllis Buchanan, “promoting science literacy for all” has been her motivator. To help get those students there, Buchanan works with educators, universities and other businesses to ensure that young people are prepared for tomorrow’s world. Buchanan says, “The key is to build and sustain knowledge.”

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

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Dr. Nicholas Bell Further entrenching this racialized injustice is more recent research that inappropriately uses achievement covariates in statistical models to make universal problematic claims that Black and Latinx students are underrepresented in special education. Gallaudet University Press. Educational Researcher, 46, 6, 305-322.

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Examples of Excelencia

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Associate Level English for Academic Purposes Reading Area Community College (Reading, PA) The English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at Reading Area Community College (RACC) began in 2012 to strategically reduce credit requirements and accelerate student progression with the goal of boosting enrollment and success rates.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

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Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. A data literacy workshop series offered each semester helps to foster a data-driven decision-making culture across the university.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 3

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In the life of a campus information technology or institutional research professional, rarely a day goes by that data is not positioned as a universal solution, whether by a vendor or the higher education media. All too often, however, the question of how to capture these data and use them to positively affect the institution remains.