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Creating Safe Spaces: Future Teachers of Color Summit

The Scholarly Teacher

As higher education BIPOC and first-generation faculty, we knew it was essential that future teacher candidates have a connection to people at the university they feel can understand them; we all come from widely different backgrounds and can ensure that this need is met. Journal of Teacher Education , 70 (1), 39–50. Gallardo, M.

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How Public Universities Can Tackle the Teacher Shortage

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

million students of color, these institutions can be instrumental in attracting, developing and inspiring the diverse educator corps our nation needs. Department of Education is stepping up with $368 million in new grant funding to aid teacher retention and recruitment and improve diversity. It’s time to dial it down.

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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

Sadly, I grew to accept this fact and did not give it much thought again until I had children, and witnessed how my son was denied entry into gifted programming due to being two points short of the necessary mark for inclusion. She and Ford interrogated test bias and unfairness in a special issue of the Journal of Negro Education.

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This president has leveraged her city’s tech boom to embrace an AI-centric future

University Business

” Miami Dade College is now built with two AI centers, a promising faculty grant program and a slew of cutting-edge certifications and stackable credentials to meet the new demands of a swelling tech industry. .” The grant program will distribute 10 awards per grant cycle for up to $10,000.

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Education Department faces calls to rescind outsourcing guidance

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A number of online program managers and universities argued in favor of keeping the exemption in place, while consumer protection advocates urged the department to change its guidance and remove the so-called bundled services exemption. The department has not announced any next steps yet on the exemption.

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Middle and High School PBL: 10 Earth Day Project Idea Driving Questions?

Experiential Learning Depot

Earth Day is one of my favorite days of the year to develop experiential science learning activities around! As a final product, I have had my students develop tools (charts, quizzes, mind maps, etc.) Should we be putting funding and energy into individual species? Take a look at these Earth Day project idea driving questions.

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CPL for Incremental & Non-Credit Credentials

Parchment

In this episode, we speak with Melanie Booth, Executive Director of the Higher Learning Commission’s Credential Lab, and Ian Roark, Vice Chancellor of Workforce Development & Innovation at Pima Community College, to discuss the policy and practice of making CPL a reality for different forms of credentials. Glad to be here.