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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

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. Dr. Erik Hines Hines : As a graduate student in my master’s program, I became aware of test biases when learning about the school counseling profession.

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Should African Americans Trust the College Board with African American Studies?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The struggle between diversity and the SAT continues today; while research universities remain largely unchanged after 50 years with professors focused more on course requirements than teaching methods or testing analytical skills, debates rage over whether or not colleges should drop their requirement for SAT/ACT scores. Dr. Ivory A.

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Report: Workers in Rural America Almost Just as Likely to Have Well-Paying Jobs, Amid Racial and Gender Disparities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It is not surprising that Native Americans, African Americans, and women are trailing in the rural economy, Dr. Christopher Hayes, assistant teaching professor of labor studies and employment relations at Rutgers-New Brunswick, said in an email. The report’s authors suggested that the U.S.

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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

However in junior high school, it was a Black American school counselor that influenced my career trajectory into the counseling profession. 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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Student Mental Health: How to Do More With Less

Thrive Alliance Group

Conduct a needs assessment Find out what factors are making the largest and most immediate impact on teaching and learning. I’m talking about paraprofessionals, aides, teaching assistants, or whatever the title is in your district. The good news is, we can still achieve that. Here’s how. Ask for their ideas and priorities.

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Dear David 2.0: Unmasking the College Board’s Profiteering at Educators’ Expense

The Counseling Geek

A little background for anyone new or unfamiliar with The College Board The College Board, a major educational “nonprofit” organization in the United States that operates around the world, is perhaps most famously known for its administration of the SAT and Advanced Placement (AP) exams.

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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. With this in mind, we (Hines and Fletcher) compiled the collection of readings by prominent scholars, as described herein. Dr. Erik M. Hines and E.C.

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