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Empowering Students and Educators: Crafting a Zero-Cost, Culturally Inclusive Textbook for Hawai‘i’s Future

WCET Frontiers

We engaged in professional development activities, providing opportunities for instructors to discuss teaching with the textbook, increasing student success, and creating system-wide student learning outcomes. This, in turn, will facilitate compassion between healthcare professionals and patients.

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Juneteenth, Higher Education, and Advancing Educational Equity

WCET Frontiers

Juneteenth, celebrated annually on June 19th, marks a pivotal moment in American history—the day in 1865 when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, were informed of their freedom, years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. This acknowledgment is crucial for fostering understanding, healing, and progress.

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Administrators need education on antisemitism (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Especially on campus, where there is a strong commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, it can seem that antisemitism is not taken as seriously as other manifestations of bias or is only condemned in general terms alongside other forms of identity-based discrimination. and Israel.

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Centering Black Children in Education: A Fugitive Space for Resistance, Counter-Narratives, and Radical Love

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These experts, and many more, share critical knowledge and insights about injustice in schools to disrupt inequity, promote inclusive learning environments, and foster belonging for Black folks. A professional learning community for Black women principals, about Black women principals, by Black women principals.

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Landmark Education Summit Held for AANHPI

Insight Into Diversity

On Tuesday, April 2, the White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (WHIAANHPI) hosted the nation’s first ever Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Higher Education Leadership Development Summit at University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley).

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From Classrooms to Ballots: Unpacking the Significance of School Boards in the 2024 Elections

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Across states like South Carolina to Florida , local school boards are actively involved in banning books, removing school leaders committed to equity, and imposing limitations on classroom teachers, preventing them from teaching an accurate and honest portrayal of the United States' history.

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Proclamation from the Mayor of Chicago in Honor of ACPA’s 100th Anniversary

ACPA

commitment to excellence and encourage all citizens to congratulate the organization on its many Dated this 18th day of March, 2024. commitment to excellence and encourage all citizens to congratulate the organization on its many Dated this 18th day of March, 2024.