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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. His research spans multiple disciplines, including school counseling, urban education, and STEM.

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Why HBCUs Are Ideal Partners for Advancing Early Childhood Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

billion is a staggering amount of public investment thats what states collectively spent in just one year on state-funded preschool, according to the latest report from the National Institute for Early Education Research. Instead, its grounded in meeting educators where they are literally and figuratively.

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Politics Drive College Choices for Nearly One-Third of Gen Z Students, New Survey Finds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Political considerations are playing an unprecedented role in college selection, with nearly one-third of prospective students removing schools from consideration for political reasons, according to a new study released Tuesday by education research firm EAB.

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Scholar Looks to Ease the Burden of Racial Opportunity Costs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

before she became a full professor and a dean, before she published the book that sums up her life's work and her life experience, Terah Venzant Chambers was shaking in a pew. It’s a concept that she’s been refining for 16 years, culminating in the release of Racial Opportunity Cost , her first book, this month.

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"We Know More Than What Those Damn Tests Claim to Measure”: How Tests are Inequitable for Black and Other Minoritized Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This experience served as the fundamental reason I focused my dissertation and first book on gifted and talented Black students who became underachievers. I believe that this was in the third grade when my district tested all of the children for inclusion in the gifted education programs. I wanted my son to do well, so I waited.

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Research in Action: Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson

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She recalls appearing on a panel with him at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and following his research in the years following. An expert on rural education and school desegregation, Williams arrived at MSU as department chair a few years ago after serving on the faculty at the University of Georgia.

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Advancing Social Justice Through Scholarly Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brown II, CSJ executive director and research scientist, says in recent years higher education research has shifted away from HBCUs to minority-serving institutions more broadly. Research topics are driven by the mission and by the Agora Strategy Council of which Dr. Christopher B. Dr. Harry L. Nicholas D.

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