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Educational Institutions Play Vital Role in Teaching American Public

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bunch III came together to discuss the increasingly vital role public institutions play in teaching American citizens their country’s history, particularly the history of Black people. It’s a history that must be told and folks are doing it—but Dunn does it at a risk to himself and the people he teaches.” in September 2016.

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Finding love in international education: four stories

The PIE News

In the international education sector, we are constantly meeting people – at conferences, institutions and agencies, and it’s a constant rollercoaster. The PIE chats to four couples who met in the industry – and the rest is history. Love in Providence “We met in Rhode Island in 2016. For some, they’ve even found love.

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Martin Luther King Jr.: The Purpose of Education

Academe Blog

POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN I previously posted this in 2016. The following was written by Martin Luther King, Jr. and first published in the February 1947 edition of the Morehouse College Student Newspaper. King was 18 years old. As I engage in the so-called “bull sessions” around and about the school, I too often find…

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Leader of Learning Podcast episode 137: How to Ensure Educational Success with Dr. Sam Nix

Leader of Learning

Dan Kreiness (@dr_kreiness) interviews Dr. Sam Nix (@_SamuelNix), Chief of Schools in the Duncanville Independent School District, 2015-2016 Principal of the Year in the Arlington Independent School, and author of the book, “Ensure Educational Success.” Dr. Sam Nix began his career in education as a middle school teacher and coach.

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Endowed Chairs and the "Dark Matter" of Higher Education

Higher Education Inquirer

More than a century ago, Thorstein Veblen and Upton Sinclair critically exposed the structure and history of US higher education. Yet there is still much that the public doesn't know about the higher education business. The Reemergence of "Fascism(s)" in US Higher Education Others have followed. One Fascism or Two?:

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception. Dr. Linda Darling- Hammond The leadership of the national research society that strives to advance knowledge about education and currently boasts a membership of about 25,000 scholars — remained exclusively white until the 1990s. Banks to serve as president.

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Does the multiplication of alternative providers call for a new review of higher education?

HEPI

T his post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. The proposals of the Robbins Report on Higher Education considered the role of providers of tertiary education.