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Children are facing potentially permanent learning loss. But additional instructional time alone won’t help.

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But additional instructional time alone won’t help. There are many strategies district leaders have used to combat learning loss that focus on building more instructional time, like extending the school year and encouraging summer prep classes. What district leaders need to focus on now is the quality and efficacy of that instruction.

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Data and Collaboration are the Key to Preserving Higher Ed’s Hard-Fought Equity Gains

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This research showed significant increases in persistence for students who participated in tutoring programs and who received supplemental instruction. We learned that tutoring was immensely effective for males and African American students, in particular.

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Missouri State Announces Its 12th President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Richard "Biff" Williams “I’m humbled by the honor and excited by the opportunity to lead Missouri State University toward a future where innovation, collaboration, and excellence define our educational journey,” said Williams, who becomes the university’s 12th president.

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Combating the Illusion of DEI Collusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

How can faculty with demonstrated instruction to 21st Century students improve our classrooms? How can an institution discern when opportunity, activity, and integration to readdress the mono-cultural instructional histories of its faculty is needed?

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Dr. Jeff Cox Appointed President of the North Carolina Community College System

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Previously, he was superintendent of Alleghany County Schools; assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction for Lee County Schools; and an elementary principal and assistant principal in Union County Schools.

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National University Students Given Access to Work-Based Learning Via Online Platform

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students are] actually working and collaborating on a regular cadence with these employers to build those connections, get that experience, [and] apply the learning, but also develop some of those professional skills.” It is yet to be seen what the partnership between NU and the company will look like moving forward, according to Milliron.

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Community-Engaged Scholar Dr. DeLeon Gray Believes in the Value of Hyperlocal Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2018, Gray and his colleagues won the Best Article Award for a publication in Educational Psychologist, titled “Black and Belonging at School: A Case for Interpersonal, Instructional, and Institutional Opportunity Structures.” Gray began conducting youth programs when he arrived at North Carolina State as a professor in 2012.