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"We Know More Than What Those Damn Tests Claim to Measure”: How Tests are Inequitable for Black and Other Minoritized Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This experience served as the fundamental reason I focused my dissertation and first book on gifted and talented Black students who became underachievers. I believe that this was in the third grade when my district tested all of the children for inclusion in the gifted education programs. I wanted my son to do well, so I waited.

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A Framework for Non-Degree Credential Quality

Parchment

Michelle (03:28.258) Well, I think you raise a really good point in how you framed your question here, which is that I think the first order of business is trying to make sense of what we mean by this whole landscape of non-credit and non-degree credentials and what these various things are intended to do and to accomplish for people.

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A Research-Based Look at Stackable Credentials

Parchment

And then I think the other thing is really, again, providing more of these on ramps to educational programs that take fewer than two years to complete. I think that we’ve had some challenges in post -secondary education. small benefits from career pathways, programs, and stackable credentials pathways.

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Where do we go from here? (Martin Luther King, 1967)

Higher Education Inquirer

What used to be primarily a voter registration staff is actually a multifaceted program dealing with the total life of the community, from farm cooperatives, business development, tutorials, credit unions, etcetera. They were trained in literacy, consumer education, planned parenthood, and many other things.