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OPINION: This is no time to ban DEI initiatives in education; we need DEI more than ever

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Related: One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies Instead of caving in, educational institutions should double down on DEI efforts. The lack of instruction in these fields in K-12 education can help explain why there are such strong attacks on DEI.

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Study: Half or more of community college students struggle to afford food, housing

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The figures reinforce earlier findings of smaller, regional studies, including one by the same research group. The 33,000 who did were generally representative of community college students nationwide, though more were female—women generally are more likely to respond to surveys, the researchers said—and attended school full time.

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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

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Districts across the country have been ramping up career education programs spurred, in part, by federal legislation updated in 2018 that provides funding for career education (commonly referred to as Perkins V ), said Matt Giani, a research associate professor in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin who studies education policy.

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Substitute teacher crisis forces districts to turn to local businesses and recent grads

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Even before the coronavirus hit, schools were able to fill only about 54 percent of some 250,000 teacher vacancies each day, according to a survey of more than 2,000 educators released early in 2020 by the EdWeek Research Center. 10 — teacher absence days after which student performance can be affected. That’s disastrous to do that.

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The business decision segregating college students by income and race

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As calls intensify for more diversity at universities and colleges, some students and researchers say socioeconomic and racial segregation on campuses is instead on the rise. Most of them don’t do it intentionally,” said one of the researchers, Joe Swingle, a professor of sociology at Wellesley College. “It

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OPINION: Iowa offers the nation some lessons about graduating incarcerated students from college

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Courses range from “The Sociology of Sport” to “Songwriting and Singing in a Prison Choir” and are primarily taught in person through the University of Iowa or through an associate-degree program with Iowa Central Community College.

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Inside the Reardon-Hanushek clash over 50 years of achievement gaps

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Measuring achievement gaps between rich and poor might seem like a straightforward exercise for education experts. But despite this apparent simplicity, two prominent education researchers have arrived at different answers. Reardon is a professor at the Graduate School of Education. It’s important to know.

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