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Anti-Racist Teachers: Disrupting Resegregation [Overrepresentation] in Special Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Editor's Note: With the exception of the last section about an Anti-Racist, Culturally Competent Special Education Model, the content in this article comes from a recently accepted journal manuscript. The APA apology to minoritized people for the history of test bias was finally issued in 2021. Collier, Z., Vélez, V., &

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Integrating Arts as a Healing Force

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jabani Bennett is an interdisciplinary visual artist, yoga instructor, community-engaged educator, leadership consultant, dancer, and mama. She is also the first Black and openly queer director in the University of Louisville Women’s Center’s 30-year history.

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How to Hold Institutions Accountable for Student Success

Inside Higher Ed

Some institutions enroll students with higher needs: more low-income, first-generation undergraduates who received an uneven high school education. Interestingly, Yin’s risk-adjusted predictive model does not incorporate admission rates or standardized test scores. No one wants to compare apples and oranges. percent).

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Leader of Learning Podcast episode 137: How to Ensure Educational Success with Dr. Sam Nix

Leader of Learning

During his tenure as a teacher, he led both his school and district in U.S. History State Accountability Scores. Dr. Nix has served as an Assistant Principal and Principal of both middle and high schools. June James NAACP Education Award in 2016 and the Leadership Legacy Award from the Future Schools Network in 2019.

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From Research and Theory Into Practice: hooks’ Homeplace Matters in the Educational Lives of Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The current context of education is riddled with anti-Blackness that continues to find systemic ways to harm Black children and adolescents, ranging from the persistent surveillance and pushout from educational opportunities to anti-CRT legislation that prevents all students — not just Black youth — from learning about Black history and culture.

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