Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2025

billion for Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants, which fund professional development and activities to improve teacher effectiveness. The funding freeze affects six critical federal education programs that support teacher professional development, English language learning, after-school programs, and services for migrant children.

Title IV

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences to establish the Center for Early Literacy and Responsible AI (CELaRAI). Christine Wang, a professor of learning and instruction in UB’s Graduate School of Education. The Center will be led by Dr. X.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2024

Literacy is a core focus area in our efforts to improve lives,” said Wade-Johnson. “We Kathleen Clark, who has led the program since its inception, said children participate in phonological awareness and structured literacy instruction that targets their reading needs.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

A Pepperdine University professor has been working on a pilot instructional program to give high school students a head start when it comes to understanding math. Roberson, who teaches statistics in Pepperdine’s political science program, served as one of the initiative’s teachers, instructing students on algebra.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

Comprehensive student support services will also be available, such as career advising, preparation for job interviews, job placement, childcare, and financial literacy training. The collective will include specialized shops, labs, and classrooms for hands-on instruction and training.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Registered A pprenticeships—programs that combine school instruction with paid on-the-job training, allowing students to “earn while they learn” — are critical on-ramps to good jobs. In the program, s tudents learn construction , electrical and plumbing basics, blueprint reading and drawing, math , and worksite safety.

Instruction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

We don't know if it’s because they're bored or they're being instructed in a certain way,” she said. But we know that learners at all different levels of literacy and educational attainment are finding value in these archives when they're available to them.”

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Others are teaching information literacy by having students fact-check bots’ responses to research questions. If we’re going to use generative AI for instruction, we need to make sure that our students all understand how to use the technology effectively,” said Conatser. There are also concerns that AI tools could be biased.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

culturally relevant and sustaining teaching) and high-quality instruction (i.e., curriculum and instruction, and assessment). Similarly, our second finding suggests that kindergarten assessments predicted the resegregation of these boys and girls in special education, compared to white girls, by third grade.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I know about the history of legal bias and racism — so when I teach law, I need to instruct my students in ways that bias might show up and what to think about when they ask an LLM a question.” Dr. Vaughn A. Calhoun, assistant vice president and dean of the Center for Academic Success at Seton Hall University, agrees. “As

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

High-impact tutoring models also utilize high-quality instructional materials and include mechanisms for collecting data on student progress. Unfortunately, these kinds of intensive tutoring models can be challenging for school districts to implement.

Tutoring

EAB

APRIL 5, 2023

Few prep programs, if any, include a curriculum conferring scientifically-based reading instruction methods or the five components of literacy. Many Principals Lack the Knowledge to Reinforce Sound Reading Instruction Principal investment is critical to teacher success in literacy instruction.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A data literacy workshop series offered each semester helps to foster a data-driven decision-making culture across the university. To have that entire program delivered and the instruction take place in Spanish is very intentional for the students that come to us and the employment that they seek.

Retention

EAB

MAY 25, 2023

We provided annual workshops on the process, increased data literacy, explained how decisions were made (and by whom), and tracked how decisions got communicated and followed up on. 2: Carefully consider your data visualizations Remember that you’re dealing with a campus community that has a wide range of data literacy.

Literacy

Timely MD

JULY 6, 2022

Rural students often have limited access to mental health care due to cost, health insurance coverage, and lower behavioral health literacy, which allows mental health concerns to go unrecognized and untreated.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Department of Education for a program to teach K-12 teachers about civics, history, and media literacy. Teachers who have been hired to teach history and social studies in [high-poverty schools] may not have had much coursework in history, civics and media literacy themselves or training in how to teach these subjects,” Harris said.

Literacy

EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D.,

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

There will be ongoing coverage of the end of affirmative action in admissions, says Dr. Stella Flores, an associate professor in the departments of Educational Leadership and Policy and Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin. We need to make higher education a priority.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

Named among Diverse Issues 2022 Top 25 Women in Higher Education, Davis’s research interests include teacher preparation at HBCUs, the promotion of equity and justice through literacy, and early literacy intervention techniques. Harris-Allen serves as the director of the Institute for the Study of Modern-Day Slavery.

Higher education

COE

MAY 8, 2023

If approved by Congress, this funding increase would allow Federal TRIO programs to move closer towards its goal of providing 1 million students with individualized support services, academic tutoring and individual counseling, financial literacy, and other needed resources to be successful in their academic careers.

First generation

COE

MARCH 10, 2023

If approved by Congress, this funding increase would allow Federal TRIO programs to move closer towards its goal of providing 1 million students with individualized support services, academic tutoring and individual counseling, financial literacy, and other needed resources to be successful in their academic careers.

First generation

SRI Education

JULY 28, 2023

Mission I’m possible: Effects of a community-based project on the basic literacy skills of at-risk kindergarteners. Learning and Instruction, 52, 130–138. Child Trends. K., & P, & Wee, S. Infants & Young Children, 27 , 60–73. link] de Vries, E. Verlinden, M., Rijlaarsdam, J., Jaddoe, V. Verhulst, F. link] Turunen, T.,

Mental health