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College Board to Release Updated African American Studies AP Course Plans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

College Board will release an updated version of its African American studies Advanced Placement course Feb. Ron DeSantis’s administration blocking initial pilot program plans in Florida high schools. Florida’s Department of Education has argued that the curriculum was contrary to Florida law and lacked educational value.

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Sacramento State Creates Nation's First Black Honors College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It’s not just taking any GE class, we’re handpicking GE classes that focus on the Black experience,” said Wood, who noted that the college curriculum will be broadly influenced by Pan-African studies. So far, administrators have already set aside over 6,000 square feet of space to house the college.

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Should African Americans Trust the College Board with African American Studies?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The College Board's decision to revise its African American Studies curriculum has come under fire from many who argue that the changes are motivated by political pressure rather than pedagogical considerations. He has stated that the revisions were made after input from professors and in accordance with "longstanding A.P. principles."

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Scholars of Urban Education Gather for Solutions-Based Conference

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Ladson-Billings is Professor Emerita and former Kellner Family Distinguished Professor in Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Gloria Ladson-Billings, one of the world's most prolific educational researchers. But that's the reality."

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College Board Unveils New AP African American Studies Course

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Ron DeSantis’s administration recently voiced opposition and blocked the pilot in Florida high schools, saying that the course was contrary to Florida law and lacked educational value. DeSantis has called the course a form of “indoctrination” and a way to “shoehorn in queer theory” through Black history for political purposes.

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Standing Up to Attacks on Black History and DE&I

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2023

Dr. Thomas Stewart As a lifelong academic, a DE&I administrator, and a Black man, I watch all of this unfold with a growing sense of foreboding. Because the attacks on programs that acknowledge race and racism are an attempt to erase a chapter of American history marred by inequality that I experienced firsthand.

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Decolonizing Higher Education Syllabi: Beyond the Aesthetics of the Syllabus

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Moreover, the syllabus speaks to the course structure, description, assessment and grading, resources, learning objectives and outcomes, and legal and administrative information. Our fifth move is decolonizing experiential learning or field placement. Dr. tavis d.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

When cultural ways of being and cultural differences are framed as assets rather than problems, unnecessary special education referrals, labeling, and placements will decrease. Thus, it is critically important that all students are provided access to a rigorous curriculum in high school to prepare them to be college and/or career ready.

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Addressing Community College Enrollment Concerns

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APRIL 16, 2023

Numerous campus administrators and staff members are concerned and offer plenty of potential ideas to reach more students. Academic roadblocks: What trends are the staff in your college’s placement testing office and registrar’s office seeing? How are students right out of high school doing on the placement tests?

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A Clarion Call for Change: Four Black Scholars Reflect on the Critical Need for More Educators of Color

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

For example, we add culture to everything associated with gifted and talented education, Advanced Placement, special education, discipline, college and career readiness, and counseling. In this same spirit, we interrogate measures, theories, and curriculum to expose “cultureblindness” and cultural assaultiveness.

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Addressing Community College Enrollment Concerns

NACAC's Admitted

APRIL 16, 2023

Numerous campus administrators and staff members are concerned and offer plenty of potential ideas to reach more students. Academic roadblocks: What trends are the staff in your college’s placement testing office and registrar’s office seeing? How are students right out of high school doing on the placement tests?

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The AP Program’s Impact On Secondary Education

College Planners of America

JULY 24, 2023

Experts in higher education have long criticized the Advanced Placement (AP) program, but few have been as scathing as John Tierney, a professor at Boston College. That’s the case with Advanced Placement courses, one of the great frauds perpetrated on American high-school students. That’s a powerful statement.

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Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s

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JULY 28, 2023

High school grades are no longer as reliable, standardized test scores became optional for admissions, and placement tests were often abandoned or replaced with alternatives. Replace math placement tests with a “multiple measures assessment.” Traditional placement tests are clunky and high-stakes.

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Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s

EAB

JULY 28, 2023

High school grades are no longer as reliable, standardized test scores became optional for admissions, and placement tests were often abandoned or replaced with alternatives. Replace math placement tests with a “multiple measures assessment.” Traditional placement tests are clunky and high-stakes.

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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

To this end, we provide P-12 educators; college/university faculty, administrators, and staff; and other education stakeholders a blueprint to collaboratively work with Black males through a culturally responsive lens. We acknowledge that more work needs to be done to right the many wrongs imposed on Black males.

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CLEP Exams Help Non-Traditional Students Earn a Degree

College Planners of America

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The student receives credits for a college course, exemption from a required course, and/or advanced placement in the curriculum of a bachelor’s degree program. government fully funds CLEP exams and administration fees so members can save money toward a college degree.

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

According to administration officials, the policy gives the Secretary of Education the ability to “waive or modify” federal student aid provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) in the case of a national emergency such as the pandemic. “But The administration also implemented a 12-month repayment “on-ramp” from Oct.

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