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Every projection indicates that minorities will represent a significant portion of the American labor force in the nearest future. Yet minority groups have historically represented segments of the population least capable of competing in the national and international marketplace. This is precisely why historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) need to rise to the challenge through an implicit mandate to internationalize their member institutions and the surrounding communities....
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By the mid-nineteenth century African societies had begun to use petitions as an instrument of agitation for reforms in nascent colonial policies. This was especially true of those societies located in the coastal enclaves where precolonial European and diasporic African influences were markedly profound. Compared with other African responses to European colonial rule, anti-colonial petitions are less spectacular. This explains, perhaps-deservingly so, why petitions or memorials, which also...
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Education of the hearing impaired in Nigeria had gone through stages of Darkness, Twilight, and Dawn as in other countries of the world. Superstitious beliefs about hearing impaired people exercise strong influence on public attitudes toward then and their subsequent education. The advent of the missionaries into the area of education of special needs children had been the forerunner of public awareness of the possibility of training and educating them in Nigeria. A great improvement has...
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The public school teacher population of the United States is predominantly White, while the demographics of P-12 student population continue to grow increasingly diverse.Across the nation, there has been a call for the recruitment and retention of culturally and linguistically diverse teachers.The state of Oregon passed the Oregon Educator Equity Act, originally called the Oregon Minority Teacher Act, in 1991, and with recent renewed attention, the preparation of more culturally and...
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Research reveals a persistent problem of underrepresentation and low academic status of African American faculty members at most U.S. colleges and universities. Using univariate and bivariate statistics, this study examined the status of African Americans in the U.S. professorate and its relationship to this group's access and success. It compared the characteristics, experiences, and achievements of African American professors on six predominantly White midwestern campuses to those of their...
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The problems associated with educational disparity in Nigeria are such that there is current fear that it could lead to disintegration particularly as it has threatened the peaceful coexistence of the nation before now. The Federal Government of Nigeria, in realisation of the possible danger educational disparity could constitute to peace, took measures to ensure educational parity. One of such is the Nomadic Education. This article employs evaluative approach in evaluating nomadic...