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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

achievement and opportunity gaps, underachievement, excessive and unjust suspensions and expulsions, overrepresentation in special education , and underrepresentation in gifted and talented education, Advanced Placement ), it behooves educators to not just increase minoritized students’ engagement , but to also increase their family’s engagement.

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Anti-Racist Teachers: Disrupting Resegregation [Overrepresentation] in Special Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Because they are receiving unnecessary services and may not have access to the general education curriculum and classroom. These results suggest that teachers’ deficit-based evaluations and early biased assessments, during kindergarten, are determining a de facto segregated placement for Black and Latinx students. public schooling.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When cultural ways of being and cultural differences are framed as assets rather than problems, unnecessary special education referrals, labeling, and placements will decrease. Thus, it is critically important that all students are provided access to a rigorous curriculum in high school to prepare them to be college and/or career ready.

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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

When teachers were Black, my mother was more comfortable attending school events, and calling them with questions. 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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Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s

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They missed out on crucial in-person learning during an unprecedented global event, and it is now our responsibility to ensure they have the best chance to catch up. High school grades are no longer as reliable, standardized test scores became optional for admissions, and placement tests were often abandoned or replaced with alternatives.

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Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s

EAB

They missed out on crucial in-person learning during an unprecedented global event, and it is now our responsibility to ensure they have the best chance to catch up. High school grades are no longer as reliable, standardized test scores became optional for admissions, and placement tests were often abandoned or replaced with alternatives.

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Sacramento State Kicks Off Black Honors College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The college provides its students of all races, cultures, and majors a comprehensive curriculum that focuses on the Black and African American experience. During the event, Wood asked incoming Black Honors College students to strive to improve life for themselves and others. It enrolls students who maintain a GPA of 3.5 8 ceremony.

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