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The quest for ‘embodied equity’ on college campuses focuses on neurodivergent students

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Now, a professor in the School of Leadership and Education Sciences at the University of San Diego, she’s helping to open, in August, the school’s Center for Embodied Equity and Neurodiversity. In part that’s because definitions of neurodivergence vary. It’s one thing to ask schools to make accommodations for a learner.

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Even as women outpace men in graduating from college, their earnings remain stuck

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But while this would seem to have significant potential implications for society and the economy — since college graduates make more money over their lifetimes than people who haven’t finished college — other obstacles have stubbornly prevented women from closing leadership and earnings gaps.

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How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

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Related: While white students get specialists, struggling Black and Latino readers often get left on their own That incipient definition characterized a lot of early thinking about dyslexia. was creating its own special education categories and definitions to prepare for the passage of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act in 1975.

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STUDENT VOICES: Kids bring into school what they’re dealing with at home. Teachers don’t get that

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I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership. I want to use my master’s degree to change that. But, I still want to be president, too. Sign up for our newsletters. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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Many state flagship universities leave black and Latino students behind

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Leave this field empty if you're human: “It matters who’s enrolled at flagships, because they tend to go on to be leaders in their states, particularly in politics and in business,” said Andrew Nichols, director of higher education research and data analytics at The Education Trust, an advocacy group that focuses on college access.

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How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education

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I definitely would have struggled [in algebra] if I didn’t have to go through the process of re-taking.”. I definitely would have struggled if I didn’t have to go through the process of retaking,” Kylee said. “It And still other schools have made changes only to have them reversed when leadership or other circumstances change.

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

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Though the state definition of proficiency is changing, for years proficiency was measured by how many students reached a passing, or “basic” score on the math and English portion of state tests.). Of the dozen or so school leaders interviewed for this article, not one had a definitive answer for why the projections were so inflated.