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Admins Look to Walk the Walk on Anti-Racism at NCORE

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It helps to decenter that, but it’s newer to me, and I’m still going to be wrestling with that.” In the meantime, the workshop leaders introduced participants to the concept of an equity framework, or a way of developing anti-racist practices on personal, professional, and institutional levels.

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Children are facing potentially permanent learning loss. But additional instructional time alone won’t help.

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Amidst the pandemic fallout, public schools are wrestling with the serious problem of learning loss. District leaders can begin to scale these science-based practices by focusing professional development opportunities on the science of learning and its practical implications. But additional instructional time alone won’t help.

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A New Phase

Will Richardson

My favorite Alfie Kohn quote these days is “I’m still wrestling with how to discuss the damaging effects of traditional educational practices without making it sound as if I’m blaming people who rely on them.” Working with them, coaching them, in fact, has been the best work that I’ve done in my professional career.

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Can the English Major Be Saved?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Consider it a red alert, a cautionary tale, a fire bell in the night and an omen and admonition about how professionalization, specialization and bureaucratization can damage a field of study, even as it has benefited those with tenure, especially those who teach at the more selective institutions. into their operations?

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Should I Disclose Learning Differences on the College Application

Great College Advice

The first step is to sit with a professional and review the documentation to be sure your student understands and can effectively communicate her area of disability. They may require you to provide documentation prepared by an appropriate professional, such as a medical doctor, psychologist, or other qualified diagnostician.

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Becoming a Mission-Driven University

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Whether or not you agree with Freire’s politics, I think we should want our students to wrestle with the underlying causes of various disparities and inequities in today’s world and various proposed solutions. Provide more space for ethical deliberation.

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Morehouse Joins Initiative to Bring College Courses to Disadvantaged High Schoolers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Morehouse College’s Social Problems course typically fills up with freshman and sophomores who want to wrestle with some of the knottiest issues of our time, including interpersonal violence, political corruption, pollution, homelessness, and racial and ethnic conflict.