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Educators as Co-Conspirators in Decolonizing Education for Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For example, some states have banned books due to race and gender, which can put educators at odds with non-discriminatory policies. GATE, Advanced Placement). Ford is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. Dr. Donna Y.

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"We Know More Than What Those Damn Tests Claim to Measureā€: 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. Ford is Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University Dr. Tanya J. I wanted my son to do well, so I waited. Dr. Donna Y. Fletcher Jr.,

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We are Not an ā€˜Issue’: We are Your Students of Color!!

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When cultural ways of being and cultural differences are framed as assets rather than problems, unnecessary special education referrals, labeling, and placements will decrease. I ts date of 1933 notwithstanding, Woodson’s Miseducation of the Negro book remains timely and timeless. c. Disciplinary overrepresentation. Dr. Donna Y.

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Going Back to School Means Increasing Black/Minoritized Family Engagement Too

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achievement and opportunity gaps, underachievement, excessive and unjust suspensions and expulsions, overrepresentation in special education , and underrepresentation in gifted and talented education, Advanced Placement ), it behooves educators to not just increase minoritized students’ engagement , but to also increase their family’s engagement.

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

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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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A Decade Later: The Flint Water Crisis

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Emergency management, and the placement of emergency managers who have not been voted for by the city they govern, is a practice that Pauli called ā€œa very strikingly un-American, autocratic form of governance.ā€ ā€œI It’s why Pauli titled his book Flint Fights Back: Environmental Justice and Democracy in the Flint Water Crisis.