Black graduations are optional celebrations complementary to faculty-based convocation ceremonies, and they remind graduates they are powerfully supported.
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All students and families will be impacted by cuts and provincial reforms being imposed on Ontario schools, and those who are already disadvantaged will bear the brunt.
A sociologist explains how Black students in Philadelphia navigate racial prejudice and find affirmation in their schools.
HBCUs make up just 3% of the country’s colleges and universities. But their graduates include 40% of Black engineers and 50% of Black lawyers.
When mentorship is rooted in compassion, culture and community, it becomes a powerful tool for change.
Black student unions date back to the late 1960s, and were formed so Black students could find community, and also make their schools more responsive to their needs.
Modern school voucher programs, publicized as a tool to provide education options for low-income families, have harmed majority Black schools.
The awarding gap is the difference between the proportion of white and Black and ethnic minority students awarded a first class or 2:1 degree.
If Canada claims to have a comprehensive, universal and accessible education system, why do parents pay for private education during the summer months?
A report by the Ontario Human Rights Commission brings family testimony together with extensive analysis to create a policy blueprint for improving education for Black students.
Universities have made little progress diversifying STEM fields in recent years.
On Nov. 15, 1960, four Black first graders desegregated New Orleans schools. One of them was Tessie Prevost, who died in July 2024 with the promises of the post-Brown era still unfulfilled.
The problem lies in how assessments are set and carried out.
Chartered accounting needs professionals who have gone through some healing from their experiences.
A study of newcomer Latin American and Black Caribbean parents in Ontario schools found many parents felt excluded from processes surrounding assessments for their child’s learning needs.
All students who apply to university need ‘U’ courses, but Toronto-area research reveals few students with zero Grade 12 ‘U’ courses apply for any post-secondary education at all.
People from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds make up, on average, 32.9% of undergraduates in England – but only 14.3% of professors.
You can’t be what you cannot see.
A leadership program for Black youth sees students participate in research related to their communities and education to propose solutions to issues that affect their lives.
A new analysis of standardized test scores from elementary schools in Michigan pinpoints when during the pandemic students fell most behind.
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Researcher in Black education, policy, and community development, University of Toronto
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Professor, Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora, York University, Canada
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Professor of Counseling Psychology, Howard University
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Associate Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher & Adult Education, Ontario Institute, University of Toronto
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Senior Lecturer in Accounting, Sheffield Hallam University
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Vice-Chancellor, Birmingham City University
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Lecturer, Maynooth University
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Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Education and Health Law Clinic, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate Professor of Public Policy and Education, Vanderbilt University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in Education, The University of Texas at Austin
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Professor, University of Michigan
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DECRA Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Old Dominion University
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Professor of Medieval Literature, University of Cambridge