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

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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

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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. Shelley Rouser y any measure, $11.73

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Education Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Dismantling of Research Institute

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Congress has recognized that good national research is necessary to achieve positive educational outcomes, and created IES to make sure that research happens and is shared, said Adam Pulver, an attorney with Public Citizen and lead counsel on the case. Secretary McMahon has no authority to override Congress.

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

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Such terminology and subsequent beliefs, behaviors, and actions hinder the ability of educators and decision makers (e.g., teachers, school board members, superintendents, principals) and policy makers to see, appreciate, and honor the cultural capital that students of color bring to education, counseling, and mental health services.

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A Culturally Responsive Counselor

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Title: Associate Professor of Counseling, Department of Disability & Psychoeducational Studies, University of Arizona, Affiliate Faculty, Education Policy Center, University of Arizona Tenured: Yes Age: 37 Education: B.S., middle school math & social studies education, University of Missouri, Columbia; M.Ed.,

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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

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Years later, as higher education faculty in gifted and talented education, school counseling, mental health, and college and career readiness, we have the same and more concerns. In preparation for this op-ed, we reflected on the first time we became aware of test bias and unfairness. Years later, our experiences still haunt us.

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Pride in the Halls

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Even if he wanted to go to the counseling center, there weren’t counselors competent to discuss issues related to his coming out process. Leyva’s research examines how interlocking systems of power, including racism and cisheteropatriarcy, impact classroom teaching and student support in undergraduate mathematics and STEM education.