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Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

based Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), one of the nation’s premiere education research and policy centers, Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper has a vision. Since taking the helm of IHEP in 2008, Cooper’s been out front influencing national education policy. As president of the Washington, D.C.-based

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Australian gov’t to review HE in long-term plan

The PIE News

The government of Australia has announced a ‘Universities Accord’ designed to build a long-term plan for the country’s higher education system. Minister for Education Jason Clare noted it is the “first broad review” of the system since the Bradley Review in 2008.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the time, Darling-Hammond was an endowed professor at Columbia University, Teachers College. Today, she is the president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, where she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Black kids are underrepresented in gifted services and overrepresented in special education services,” said report co-author Dr. Cassandra Hart, an associate professor of education policy at UC Davis.

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Updated educational attainment data show progress and gaps

Inside Higher Ed

Census Bureau data and data from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. This increase marks the largest two-year jump in educational attainment since the project began in 2008, when the share of working-age adults with a degree was only 37.9 ” The recent data show 53.7 percent in 2019.

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The Value of Higher Education in Developed Economies

HEPI

T his HEPI blog was authored by Vivienne Stern, Chief Executive of Universities UK, as an adaption of a speech she gave in response to a lecture by the Hon. Mathias Cormann, Secretary General of the OECD, on the value of higher education in developed countries. Our job must be to examine the evidence. That cannot be right.

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Higher education in London

HEPI

I jumped at the chance to speak to London Higher in part because I am an alumnus of our host institution, having studied here at the end of the last century when Queen Mary University of London / QMUL was known as QMWC or Queen Mary and Westfield College. I am also lucky to be an Honorary Fellow of this institution.