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New Research Journal Focuses on Gifted and High-Achieving Minority Groups

A newly launched peer-review journal is scheduled to publish in Spring 2020 and will examine achievement, creativity, and leadership among gifted and high-achieving minority populations across the P-20 continuum.

September 30, 2019

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OSU’s College of Education is Making Diverse Faculty Hiring a Top Priority

The Ohio State University’s College of Education and Human Ecology has recruited some of the nation’s top Black scholars in the fields of education to join its faculty in the Fall. The assembling of this “dream team” which includes scholars such as Drs. Donna Y. Ford, Lori Patton Davis and Edward Fletcher is part of an aggressive plan by the school’s relatively new dean to diversify the school’s faculty.

June 3, 2019

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Academics, Experts Share Diversity Dreams for 2019

With 2018 in the rearview mirror and 2019 in the windshield, Diverse asked some academics and other authorities to share their biggest wish for diversity, access and inclusion in higher education in the new year.

January 2, 2019

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A Passionate Advocate for Gifted and Special Education Equity

Dr. Donna Y. Ford did it for her son. She was single and 18 when she gave birth to Khyle, and he motivated her to aim higher.

September 25, 2018

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Foundation Offers Recent Graduates $5,000 to Move to Ohio City

Earlier this week, the city council of Hamilton, Ohio unanimously endorsed a plan that will offer a $5,000 “reverse scholarship” to assist with student loan payments for recent college or trade-school graduates willing to move to there.

March 1, 2018

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How Gifted Education Fuels Injustices

Black students represent 19% of the public schools population but only 10% of gifted programs. This discrepancy means that over 250,000 Black students have been denied access to gifted education annually.

January 22, 2016

Opinion

Study on Black, Hispanic Children in Special Ed Wrong, Regressive

An op-ed by Paul L. Morgan and George Farks claimed that “black children are underrepresented in special-education classes when compared with white children with similar levels of academic achievement, behavior and family economic resources.”

July 5, 2015