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Morgan State University Wins 2022 ETS/CGS Award for Innovation in Promoting Success in Graduate Education

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Morgan State University, a Historically Black university in Baltimore, has been awarded the 2022 ETS/CGS Award for Innovation in Promoting Success in Graduate Education: From Admission through Completion from The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) and ETS. Its instructional curriculum is built on a series of four courses.

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Report: Student Interest in Pursuing Careers in Education on the Decline, But Enrollment in Intro Teaching Courses Rises

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in 2022, according to researchers’ analyses of ACT data. in 2022 compared to 6.9% In Tennessee, the 83% in 2022 marked an increase from 80% in 2021. In Tennessee, in 2022, white students made up 78% of those intending to major in education, followed in second by Black students, who made up 9%. the year before.

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Why Inclusive Education Is So Difficult to Defend and Deliver

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March 3, 2022, a middle school teacher at San Francisco’s Creative Arts Charter School wanted to incorporate active learning in her history lesson on slavery. JT Torres We have all heard stories of flawed approaches to inclusive teaching. Here’s one. She decided that the best way to experience picking cotton was to, well, pick cotton.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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In 2022-23, over 350 students were awarded close to $772,000 in Graduate Initiative Grants. in 2022-23. San Francisco State University From 2010 to 2022, Latinx-identifying undergraduate enrollment at San Francisco State University (SFSU) increased from 19% to 39%. In academic year 2021-22, 45.1% That number increased to 47.8%

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Hybrid Learning Connects More Students With Opportunity

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Davis-Ganao said she had been wanting to incorporate online instruction for almost a decade, but it wasn’t until COVID that she finally had the opportunity to push her department into the option. NCCU partnered with Webex by Cisco, an online conferencing software that offers high-tech ways to implement instruction, like digital whiteboards.

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The Pickens Playbook Part 3: 2nd Year at Tennessee State University and MCAT Preparation

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Bright During the Fall of 2022, he embraced the challenge head-on, immersing himself in these complex subjects. He committed himself to teaching himself the lessons and sought external resources for further instruction. During his second year, he faced the task of taking higher-level courses in his major during his second year at TSU.

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Legends Henry and Shirley Frye Honored with Renaming of A&T Building

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Shirley Frye received the 2022 Triad Business Journal’s Outstanding Women in Business Special Achievement Award, the (Greensboro, North Carolina) News & Record Woman of the Year Award for 2017, and the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, one of North Carolina’s highest civilian honors.