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Frank Harris III; Tina M. King – Campaign for College Opportunity, 2025
This brief seeks to serve as a clarion call for all educators and policymakers who believe higher education is a viable pathway to socioeconomic prosperity and eradicating centuries of generational poverty for Black people residing in the U.S. Despite the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which marked the end of de jure segregation in the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Equal Education, African American Students, Blacks
Elizabeth Huffaker – EdResearch for Action, 2025
This research brief synthesizes decades of evidence to guide district and school leaders on when students should take Algebra I, how they should be placed, and what supports promote success. It highlights that placement based on academic readiness, rather than grade level or subjective judgments, leads to stronger achievement and access,…
Descriptors: Algebra, Access to Education, Student Placement, Mathematics Achievement
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Analiza A. Villacorte; Elenita P. Galvez; Crisanta T. De Leon; Jesusa C. Francisco; Luisito M. Nanquil; Jane Kristine G. Suarez; Ronilo P. Antonio; Walton Wider – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2025
Advancing gender parity in STEM education remains a global priority, yet persistent inequities continue to limit women's participation and leadership in science and technology fields. This study examines the intellectual structure and evolving research trends on gender parity in STEM education through a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Equal Education, Womens Education, Females
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White-Lewis, Sharon; Beach, Elaine; Zegers, Carli – Journal of School Health, 2021
Background: Disasters cause significant human and monetary destruction and society as a whole is underprepared to address them. Disaster preparedness education is not covered extensively enough for health professionals or for the general public. Methods: A disaster preparedness education intervention was performed using a non-randomized controlled…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Knowledge Level, High School Students, Disproportionate Representation
Mack, Kelly – Liberal Education, 2021
Far too often, Black women like the author, and so many others from groups that have been historically marginalized in STEM, are made to "assume some kind of position" as they navigate the hostility of a disciplinary culture that was never intended for them but has, nevertheless, benefited from them. On varying levels, that…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, STEM Education, Educational Change, Gender Bias
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Zacharias, Nadine; Ryan, Juliana – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2021
For decades Australian universities have used equity scholarships as a tool to widen participation in higher education despite limited empirical evidence about how such scholarships influence students' retention and success outcomes. This paper reports on the first cross-institutional Australian study to investigate the relationship between equity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scholarships, College Students, School Holding Power
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Cukier, Wendy; Adamu, Patience; Wall-Andrews, Charlie; Elmi, Mohamed – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2021
As of our most recent census data, racialized people comprise 22.3% of the Canadian population (Statistics Canada, 2016). Canadian universities have espoused commitments to diversity and inclusion but there has long been a gap between the rhetoric and practice. Research has demonstrated that under-representation is a problem at all levels of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Minority Groups, College Presidents, Administrators
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Perea, Jose Dario; Gasca, Diana Carolina; Echeverry-Prieto, Ghisliane; Quiroga-Fonseca, Valentina; Orozco-Donneys, Carolina; Díaz-Montealegre, Leidy Catherine; Ortiz, Alejandro; Molina, Giovanny; Cruz, Daniel; Persad, Aaron; Redd-Kantareddy, Sai Nithin; Wachsmuth, Josua; Heumueller, Thomas; Brabec, Christoph; Rodriguez-Toro, Victor Alfonso; Salguero, Carolina – European Journal of STEM Education, 2021
As part of an unprecedented collaborative outreach effort, we implemented an innovative STEM outreach project, where more than 80 middle and high school students from different traditionally underrepresented school districts in Colombia--with no previous knowledge on material science or photovoltaics--created Last Generation Solar Cells (LGSCs)…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Outreach Programs, Middle School Students, High School Students
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Senteio, Charles R.; Montague, Kaitlin E.; Campbell, Bettina; Campbell, Terrance R.; Seigerman, Samantha – Education for Information, 2021
The escalation of discourse on racial injustice prompts novel ideas to address the persistent lack of racial equity in LIS research. The underrepresentation of BIPOC perspectives contributes to the inequity. Applying the Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) approach meaningfully engages BIPOC to help guide LIS investigations that identify…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Racial Discrimination, Library Research, Disproportionate Representation
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Patel, Surili Sutaria; Robb, Katherine; Pluff, C.; Maldonado, Evelyn; Tatar, Grace; Williams, Tia – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2021
The co-occurring crises of climate change, a global pandemic, and the social justice movement has put demands on psychosocial resilience. The country and global community has witnessed that those who contribute the least to climate change are the most impacted, and that black, indigenous, and people of color bear the health and financial burdens…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Mental Health, Minority Group Children, Climate
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Harbol, Margaret R.; Farajallah, Azizeh; Kojima, Robert – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2021
The American Chemical Society (ACS) supports community college chemistry faculty by addressing curriculum, laboratory, and safety issues; however, these faculty are underrepresented in the ACS governance structure, which contributes to under-serving two-year college specific needs and low engagement by two-year faculty in the ACS.
Descriptors: Chemistry, Professional Associations, College Faculty, Two Year Colleges
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Sutton, Kate – Primary Science, 2021
Burlington Junior School in the East Riding of Yorkshire decided to highlight some excellent role models to its pupils during British Science Week 2021, who were not the stereotypical male, white, old or dead scientist. The intention was to make learning more relevant, more accessible and therefore more engaging and informative. It was hoped that…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Sex Stereotypes, Diversity, Foreign Countries
Erbacher, Terri A.; Wycoff, Kirby L. – Communique, 2021
Today we are living in an era of two pandemics--the COVID-19 global health pandemic and the racial inequity pandemic--and at the same time, anxiety over school shootings is increasing. When assessing school-based threats of violence, equitable procedures and protocols are needed to guide decision-making and ensure that high-level interventions are…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, School Violence, School Safety
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Pendola, Andrew; Fuller, Edward – Journal of Education Human Resources, 2021
The objective of this study is to add to the existing literature on principal recruitment and hiring strategies by examining the turnover and retention patterns of internally recruited principals. For many hard-to-staff schools--particularly urban and rural schools--internal recruitment is considered a primary method of improving recruitment and…
Descriptors: Principals, Recruitment, Labor Turnover, Personnel Selection
De Los Reyes, Andres; Uddin, Lucina Q. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Academics are not immune to the biases contributing to persistent inequalities in society. We face an urgent need to overhaul and dismantle current evaluation practices that uphold inequities at multiple points along the academic pipeline. Graduate admissions and faculty advancement are two arenas of gatekeeping in which a reimagining and…
Descriptors: College Admission, Faculty Promotion, Holistic Approach, Evaluation Methods
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