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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Further, school counselors must be trained in using an equity-based lens to help students of color explore various career options and postsecondary opportunities in preparation to enter a global, diverse, and technological workforce. I ts date of 1933 notwithstanding, Woodson’s Miseducation of the Negro book remains timely and timeless.

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Decolonizing Higher Education Syllabi: Beyond the Aesthetics of the Syllabus

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This negative indoctrination starts early, as demonstration in a children’s book. Our fifth move is decolonizing experiential learning or field placement. Our experiential learning or field placement assessments should also be decolonized (see above for examples) to avoid drive-by teaching. chronicity).

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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. Within the questions lie recommendations for equity-based and culturally responsive assessments. I wanted my son to do well, so I waited.

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Alabama A&M Launches Effort to Combat Racial STEM Teacher Gap

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It becomes an equity issue,” said Kim Hughes, director of the UTeach Institute at the University of Texas. There will also be funding to cover books and other materials, as well as travel to and from student teaching placements.

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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

She often played music by Bob Marley, and we read poetry books by Shel Silverstein (i.e., I responded to the challenge and read the book. For example, we add culture to everything associated with gifted and talented education, Advanced Placement, special education, discipline, college and career readiness, and counseling.

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New Book Examines Foster Care Students in College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In his new book, From Foster Care to College , Dr. Royel M. The reality is, most people know very little to nothing about foster care, and the little they do is curated by the media and stereotypical images that paint foster care youth as deviant, incorrigible, and the reason for their placement in the foster care system,” said Johnson.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. This edited volume comprises 19 book chapters divided into two sections: (a) primary and secondary settings; and (b) postsecondary settings. Dr. Erik M.

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