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From Small-Town Roots to National Honor: SC Native Receives State's Highest Award

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Moore is also the assistant director of the Directorate for STEM Education at the National Science Foundation. billion and nearly 200 employees, he helps to leads the largest federal entity dedicated to funding educational research. since 2018. With a budget of approximately $1.8 Dr. Jerlando F.L.

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UC Regents Appoint James Milliken as System President

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"It is more important than ever that we expand the education, research, health care, and public service for which UC is so widely admired and which has benefited so many Californians." The 68-year-old Nebraska native brings extensive leadership experience in public higher education.

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Former K-12 Teacher Voted AERA President-Elect

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Winn has been elected to a leadership post at the American Educational Research Association (AERA). She has served on the Social Justice Action, Review of Research Award, and Minority Fellowship Selection Committees, and is a member of AERA Divisions K and G.

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Study Reveals Teacher Perceptions of Chronically Absent Students

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Early elementary school teachers view chronically absent students less positively, even when they cause no trouble in the classroom, according to a new study published in AERA Open , a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association. Michael Gottfried The study by Drs. Gottfried and Phil H. Casey Foundation. “We

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Community-Engaged Scholar Dr. DeLeon Gray Believes in the Value of Hyperlocal Work

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In 2018, Gray and his colleagues won the Best Article Award for a publication in Educational Psychologist, titled “Black and Belonging at School: A Case for Interpersonal, Instructional, and Institutional Opportunity Structures.” “We’re talking about youth all the time at these conferences; why wouldn’t they be there?”

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We are Not an ‘Issue’: We are Your Students of Color!!

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These are the necessary skills that students need to successfully make the transition from high school to postsecondary education. Schools can provide this necessary preparation to students by offering accelerated courses/programs, rigorous career and technical education (CTE) programs (e.g., Warren, N., & doi:10.5328/cter43.1.77.

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Reconciling Contrasting Findings on Perceptions of Higher Ed

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A Gallup poll was released, bearing terrible news: only 36% of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education, down 12 percentage points from 2018 and 21 percentage points from 2015, when more than half of U.S. Americans generally see value in higher education.