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They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, instead of promoting the success of culturally relevant teaching strategies, according to a report by the National Association of Educators and an Education Week article , states are conflating culturally relevant teaching practices with critical race theory and are therefore adopting laws to ban the use of this pedagogical approach.

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Study Reveals How Model Minority Myth Influences School Choices

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Research shows that school integration can decrease academic gaps between racial groups, reduce prejudice, and increase social cohesion, said Villavicencio, the studys senior author and an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies at NYU Steinhardt.

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AERA Announces 2024 Fellows

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Jackson, a professor and dean of the Michigan State University (MSU) College of Education, is among 24 exemplary scholars selected by the American Educational Research Association. Their meaningful contributions to the education research field demonstrate the highest standards of academic excellence.

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Algorithmic Bias Continues to Negatively Impact Minoritized Students

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As institutions of higher education turn to AI machine learning and data-driven algorithms to make their work more efficient, a new study published in the American Educational Research Association (AERA) peer-reviewed journal , AERA Open , reminds administrators that algorithms can be racially biased.

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Bridging Research and Practice

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An encounter with Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond, the renowned education researcher at Stanford University, led to Vasquez Heilig being hired as her researcher while completing his Ph.D. “There were a lot of things happening in Houston that didn’t add up to me,” says Vasquez Heilig. “I at Stanford.

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Research in Action: Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson

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The first African American in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis to earn tenure and be appointed to a named professorship, Jackson would eventually work his way up the ranks of the faculty, ultimately securing the rank of full professor and taking on the role of department chair. I gave up.

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Advancing Social Justice Through Scholarly Work

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Bonner II, the Wilhelmina Delco Endowed Chair in Educational Leadership and the executive director of the Minority Achievement, Creativity and High-Ability Center, Prairie View A&M University, and a collaborator with CSJ. Dr. Harry L.

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