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Brett, James T. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2021
The price of higher education continues to increase, and millions of Americans struggle with student loan debt. At the same time, a college degree is for so many a path to career success and financial security, and our region's employers depend on a talented pipeline of highly skilled workers to continue to grow and thrive. Pell Grants were…
Descriptors: Grants, Federal Aid, Paying for College, Higher Education
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Marshall, Tanji Reed; Bouffard, Suzanne – Learning Professional, 2021
A historically responsive literacy framework examines teaching strategies and structures that honor the histories, identities, and literary practices of all youth from diverse cultures, and especially those who have been traditionally underserved in schools. The framework builds on other work on culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogies and…
Descriptors: Educational History, Race, Blacks, Equal Education
Dave Brown – Middle Grades Review, 2023
As a reviewer of middle level schools, their programs, policies, curricula, mission statements, instructional behaviors, assessment processes, and student-oriented community the author offers observations that can promote better student equity. He suggests: (1) "Producing Equity Belief Statements." Mission, Equity, or Inclusion…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, School Culture, Organizational Culture, Social Structure
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Reynolds, Dan – Reading Research Quarterly, 2021
The demand for evidence-based instructional practices has driven a large supply of research on adolescent literacy. Documenting this supply, Baye, Inns, Lake, and Slavin's 2019 article in "Reading Research Quarterly" synthesized far more studies, with far more rigorous methodology, than had ever been collected before. What does this mean…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Literacy, Reading Research, Evidence
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Heafner, Tina Lane – Social Education, 2020
This article, which was completed in January 2020, expands the author's presidential address, which was delivered at the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Annual Conference in Austin, Texas, on November 22, 2019. In her address, Heafner discusses the new ecology of social studies and focuses on concerns over the civic health of our…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Activism, Conferences (Gatherings), Speeches
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Martin, Linda E.; Mulvihill, Thalia M. – Teacher Educator, 2021
Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings is the former Kellner Family Distinguished Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She served as president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in 2005-2006. Dr. Ladson-Billings has contributed widely to the development of…
Descriptors: Interviews, College Faculty, Culturally Relevant Education, Critical Theory