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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. Dr. Joyce E.

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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). According to the study, Indiana’s grade retention policy was in effect from the 2011-2012 through 2016-2017 school years.

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University of Vermont Launches Open-Access Academic Press

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Before UVM, he helped launch the Amherst College Press in 2013 and led a consortium of libraries in creating the open-access Lever Press in 2016. Geffert himself has prior experience with o pen-access models.

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Capabilities Approach & open education

Catherine Cronin

Although I now work independently in open education research and policy, my work between 2019 and 2021 related to practice and policy in the Irish HE sector, as Digital and Open Education lead for Ireland’s National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Czerniewicz, 2016 ; Bali et al.,

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Higher Ed Lessons in Interim Leadership

The University Innovation Alliance

Dr. Reyes previously served as West Virginia University’s Milan Puskar Dean of the John Chambers College of Business and Economics from 2016-2021, and vice president for StartUp West Virginia from 2018-2021. Co-Host: Bridget Burns , CEO, University Innovation Alliance Dr.

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Your ‘Nowhere’ is my ‘Somewhere’

Supporting Student Success

For a thorough description of the 4Rs, please read the excellent piece by Kirkness & Barnhardt (1991) 2 and more contemporary articles by Pidgeon (2014) 3 and Wimmer (2016) 4. Do you know of other conferences, books, articles, people to follow on Twitter who focus on rural education issues? Please leave a comment. References.

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Bullying

SRI Education

We wanted to learn more about bullies and victims in early elementary school, which is a critical period for bullying screening and prevention (Kljakovic & Hunt, 2016; Yeager et al., 2016; Huang, 2018; Okonofua & Eberhardt, 2015; Tenenbaum & Ruck, 2007). 2013; Kljakovic & Hunt, 2016; Oncioiu et al.,