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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This is necessary but must include intentional and proactive scholarship and resources on racial identity development. When cultural ways of being and cultural differences are framed as assets rather than problems, unnecessary special education referrals, labeling, and placements will decrease. c. Disciplinary overrepresentation.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Around a quarter of the money will go directly to help students, including tuition reimbursement for the initial two courses and scholarships later on. 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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"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. Since then, I have focused my scholarship on college and career readiness, and STEM for Black males. I wanted my son to do well, so I waited.

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Dream Big: Scholarship America Dream Award Scholar Vy Nguyen

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I was eager to learn new things and books were my favorite gifts. She’s particularly interested in pursuing a career in pediatrics and women’s health, and has just started a clinical placement at Providence Medical Center in the neonatal intensive care unit. As a kid, I was always a scholar,” Vy said. “I Keep trying.”

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Scholars: Racial Backlash Robs White Students of U.S. History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Elementary school teachers have been forced to empty their classroom libraries in response to a law requiring that all books be approved by a media specialist as free of “unsolicited theories that may lead to student indoctrination.” Ron DeSantis banned the pilot of the College Board’s Advanced Placement African American Studies course.

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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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