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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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When the man behind the curtain is female: More women now hold key education policymaker jobs

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Kids were busting into Zoom meetings across the country at that point in the pandemic, but for Kelley, whose job is to help design California’s statewide education policy, and her female colleagues, the situation held special resonance. “We According to research , she’s right. Hers is a distinctly powerful position.

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Tears, confusion and financial woes as colleges abruptly end semesters and send students home

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NEW YORK – The minute colleges began shutting down amidst coronavirus concerns this week, researcher and author Anthony Abraham Jack worried about the many low-income students he mentors. Universities across the nation have closed through spring break as the novel Coronavirus spreads. Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images). Where would they go?

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Economists find free community college can backfire

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One team of researchers has a surprising answer. Free community college, an increasingly popular idea, is much less effective, actually reducing four-year college education rates while low-income Americans reap the smallest benefits, the researchers found. ” Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. .

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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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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.