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A Tribute to Dr. James A. Banks — The Father of Multicultural Education: In These Troubling Anti-EDI Times

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A few days ago, I went to my office to get one of my students a book of great interest. Banks’ An Introduction to Multicultural Education. For unfamiliar readers, Banks is highly regarded as the father of multicultural education. In searching the shelves, I came across Dr. James A. Dr. Donna Y.

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Dr. Jerome Morris Elected Next AERA President, Continuing Legacy of Black Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The shift represents a dramatic change for an organization that Dr. James Banks, the first Black man to lead AERA (1997-1998), described as "pretty lily white" during his tenure. "I I worked hard to transform the organization," Banks told Diverse in an interview last year.

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The Sooner, The Better: Building Financial Literacy Among Black Students (and Communities)

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Financial Literacy and Education Commission, the Evolve Trust & Bank states that principles are: (1) earn; (2) save and invest; (3) protect; (4) spend; and (5) borrow. Bank employees, investment brokers, etc.). Finding this data is like searching for a needle in a haystack. Borrowing from the U.S. 2. Early intervention.

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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In my opinion, the rapid integration of AI in the everyday marketplace through cellular phones opened the door to full AI lifestyle integrations like facial recognition, Alexa, smart home devices, chatbots, online banking security, healthcare diagnosis, language translation, and the like.

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Instructional Violence Must End: Keeping the Legacy of A. Wade Boykin Alive

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Banks is the father of multicultural curriculum culturally relevant and affirming content and materials. Ford and hearts as they seek to provide Black students with rigorous and relevant instructional styles and strategies. I want to inform and/or remind readers that Dr. James A.

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Game Changers and Change Makers: Black Publishers’ Defiant Mark on History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Since the second decade of the nineteenth century, black-owned book publishing has existed in the United States, the books released by these publishing enterprises have vindicated blacks, documented black culture and history, and addressed the special concerns of black people in ways which white book publishers have not.

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An Outsider’s View, Self-Worth

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

What Chua had intended as a semi-comedic study of parenting at a cultural intersection quickly became a hotly contested book. “A If you actually read the book, you realize that it gets really complicated. If you want to write the book, write the book.’” A lot of people were talking about it without having read it.

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