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Educators as Co-Conspirators in Decolonizing Education for Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

GATE, Advanced Placement). Ford is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. They are not only inequitably overrepresented in special education, but they have no representation in rigorous coursework or gifted and talented programs (i.e., Dr. Donna Y.

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Community College Leader Recognized as 2023 Diverse Champion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And I said, ‘No, you’re just a human being that’s never gone to college.’” Rivera noted that a previous placement exam once used in the MCCCD placed many students in developmental courses and was biased against first-generation students in particular. And they’ll come up afterward and say, ‘Thank you. Because I had no idea.

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Human rights activist and civil rights lawyer Randall Robinson died March 24, at age 81. Ron DeSantis’s administration blocking initial plans to pilot College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies in Florida high schools. Blank was one of UWM’s longest-serving chancellors. Diverse original co-founders, Frank L.