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Making Math More Equitable

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I love seeing my feed blow up w/ the news that numerous research proposals adopting critical & intersectional approaches to advancing justice in math & STEM higher ed were accepted as presentations during the 2024 @AERA_EdResearch Annual Mtg in Philadelphia. Leyva teaches and mentors undergraduate and graduate students.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. He is the director of the PRISM (Power, Resistance & Identity in STEM Education) research lab.

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From Research and Theory Into Practice: hooks’ Homeplace Matters in the Educational Lives of Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As such, authors discuss the ways that cultivating Black joy and homeplace address these needs and should be foundational as a part of education. Teaching homeplace: How teachers can cultivate Black joy through culturally responsive practices in the classroom. Lawson, T. Theory into Practice. link] Dr. Donna Y. Lowery, K.

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Reconciling Contrasting Findings on Perceptions of Higher Ed

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Experts on American perceptions of higher education said that the polls collectively reveal that American views are nuanced. Zach Hrynowski, an education research consultant at Gallup, thought that Americans were differentiating between higher education itself and the systems that organize it.

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Scholar Looks to Ease the Burden of Racial Opportunity Costs

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As Chambers refined the theor y and published paper after paper about students who suffered in some of the same ways that she had , she climb ed higher in academia than she would have ever imagined, becoming a full professor and associate dean for equity and inclusion at Michigan State University. She teaches at Carleton every summer.

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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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I am determined to guide educators in becoming culturally competent professionals for Black males in p-12 and higher education. Middleton : My first encounter with test bias was in elementary school. I recall taking the test, and being included in the group of “gifted” children who were exposed to higher levels of reading and math.

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

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Falling in love with the work of the professoriate While becoming a dean of a college of education was an early aspiration, that career trajectory took a detour once Jackson joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison some 22 years ago. “I It was like, ‘Who was hiding this from everyone?'” I gave up.

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