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Black Students Less Likely Identified for Special Ed When They Have Black Teachers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Black students in elementary school, particularly Black boys, are less likely to be identified for special education when their teachers are also Black, according to a new report published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). And so, to not find that for the gifted placement was super interesting to me."

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Scholars of Urban Education Gather for Solutions-Based Conference

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That's been a requirement for Lewis, the Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Urban Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the executive director of the university's Urban Education Collaborative, the convener of the conference which first launched in 2014. Dr. Chance W. Lewis, and Drs.

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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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Once recruited, they want and need to be retained, which requires having anti-racist, culturally competent educators who are advocates, upstanders, and allies. Hines is associate professor and program coordinator of counselor education at Florida State University. Dr. Donna Y. Fletcher Jr.,

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

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Dr. Nicholas Bell Further entrenching this racialized injustice is more recent research that inappropriately uses achievement covariates in statistical models to make universal problematic claims that Black and Latinx students are underrepresented in special education. Educational Researcher , 44 , 278–292.

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

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When cultural ways of being and cultural differences are framed as assets rather than problems, unnecessary special education referrals, labeling, and placements will decrease. Hines is associate professor and program coordinator of counselor education at Florida State University. c. Disciplinary overrepresentation.

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Survey Examines College Enrollment Amid Post Pandemic Decline

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The data offers new insight on the contributing factors for the spike decline in enrollment at community college and universities across the country. Krutz said that colleges and universities have to do a better job developing recruitment tactics developed for this demographic. About 20,000 high school students were surveyed.