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HBCU Leaders Gather to Create Blueprint for Future of Higher Education

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Ed Smith-Lewis, senior vice president for strategic partnerships at the United Negro College Fund facilitates a session at the H.E.L.F Pinkard, the former president of Wilberforce University who currently serves as an HBCU presidential fellow at Brown University, said that the convening was informed by "two very, very powerful assumptions.

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Don’t Just Witness History; Seize the Opportunity to Shape It

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institutions, and they do so successfully, facilitating the upward mobility of the majority of their students. It’s instructive to understand how our collective efforts brought us to this point. They serve more economically disenfranchised students than most U.S. This election offers an important opportunity to do just that.

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Grassroots Push for Computer Science Education Gears Up

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For close to a year, I have been strategizing and working with Randy Raymond, a software engineer at Google, to make access to computer science education the new “Space Race” and create models that schools can scale to deliver instruction to students. The school has an existing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (S.T.E.M.)

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A Tribute to Dr. James A. Banks — The Father of Multicultural Education: In These Troubling Anti-EDI Times

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Ford In these anti-EDI times, I think it is essential to re-familiarize ourselves and to inform others about the goals of multicultural education. Far too many opposers are misguided and ill-informed. A review of his bio shows that he has earned this tribute. Dr. Donna Y. To problem-solving? · An Equity Pedagogy.

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University of Miami Computer Science Student Fuels “Accelerate Tech” Pilot Program

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Davenport, a freshman computer science major from Washington Township, New Jersey is the first facilitator for a new computer science “Accelerate Tech” pilot program that has been incorporated into the Saturday school programming at Earlington Heights Elementary School. Not everyone knows or understands that.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

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Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. Using data-informed and intentional strategies, CSULA has closed the four-year and six-year graduation gaps between Latino and other students.

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

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More specifically, the council is designed to facilitate strong and effective relationships between schools and parents, families and caregivers. instruction, teaching styles, learning styles). There’s a wealth of information in each chapter. Black families frequently arrive at school to be treated like students themselves.