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Instructional Violence Must End: Keeping the Legacy of A. Wade Boykin Alive

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ford and hearts as they seek to provide Black students with rigorous and relevant instructional styles and strategies. Banks is the father of multicultural curriculum culturally relevant and affirming content and materials. Combined and individually, curriculum and/or instruction can traumatize students, in this case Black students.

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Report: Outdated Funding Law Hampers Community College Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The report, Modernizing California Community College Funding: Reforming the Fifty Percent Law to Support Student Success," argues that the 1961 law requiring California's community colleges to spend at least half of their general funds on direct classroom instruction is outdated and prevents colleges from adequately funding critical student support (..)

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I like the simple, straightforward definition of engagement set forth by the Connecticut State Department of Education : “Family engagement is a full, equal, and equitable partnership among families, educators, and community partners to promote children’s learning from birth through college and career.”

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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

Conversely, some education professionals presume that intelligence tests measure unlearned abilities — abilities independent of or less dependent on instruction and education — and they (mis)interpret low performance on intelligence tests with low cognitive ability and potential. Curriculum and instruction must be rigorous and relevant.

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Districts are still struggling with low reading proficiency. These barriers are probably why.

EAB

Few prep programs, if any, include a curriculum conferring scientifically-based reading instruction methods or the five components of literacy. Many Principals Lack the Knowledge to Reinforce Sound Reading Instruction Principal investment is critical to teacher success in literacy instruction. Ready to find out more?

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Best AP Classes for High School Students: CollegeAdvisor x StudyLab

Student Research Foundation

Advanced Placement courses, more commonly known as AP courses, are designed to mirror the rigor and curriculum of introductory college-level courses. With all that in mind, there is no definitive answer to which AP classes will best prepare you for college.

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Improve your program review process with these 4 data tips

EAB

Dr. Louis Slimak , Associate Provost for Curriculum and Assessment at West Virginia University (WVU), has done extensive work to overhaul the WVU’s program review process—and its culture around data more broadly—since his arrival in 2016. Now more than ever, institutions feel pressure to execute these kinds of processes.