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LETITIA WILLIAMS

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Williams earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of the West Indies, a master’s in education policy and leadership and a Ph.D. in education policy from the University of Maryland College Park.

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Educators Strategize on How to Diversify the K-12 Teaching Profession

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Educators who train and prepare students to become teachers, gathered this weekend at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) to call attention to the ongoing challenges that face K-12 learning. AURORA, Colo.— Supreme Court case that desegrated public schools.

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Lifting As They Climb

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At the time, Darling-Hammond was an endowed professor at Columbia University, Teachers College. Today, she is the president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, where she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. “I

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Report Suggests Reforms if Supreme Court Strikes Down Affirmative Action

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Race-conscious admissions were now only allowed for the achievement of the educational benefits of diversity. Dr. Anthony Carnevale, director of the CEW “We decided to disconnect affirmative action from America’s vulgar and violent racial history,” said Dr. Anthony P. Carnevale, director of the CEW. “It

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Ivy League to Become Collegiate Outlier in Top Women Leadership

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The Ivy League, with some of the oldest institutions of higher education in the U.S., Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and Columbia University named new presidents, each to take office in July. Robert McCaughey, retired professor of history and Janet H. recently announced bold choices in leadership.

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The Resilient Voice of Justice: The Role of the Black Church in Response to the Affirmative Action Ruling

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Ellis The National Council of Churches vehemently opposed the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action in college admissions. In the report, Bishop Vashti Murphy-McKenzie, NCC President and General Secretary notes: “Race has been a factor in making employment, housing, banking, health care and education decisions for centuries in America.

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Experts Discuss Equity Practices in Higher Ed Recruitment and Admissions

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Supreme Court’s decision to strike affirmative action, there are still ways to get diverse student populations into higher ed, experts and scholars said at a webinar hosted this week by California student success organization The Campaign for College Opportunity. And I don't think that that is the implication of this decision."