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H. Richard Milner IV, Vanderbilt University education professor, has been voted president-elect of the American Educational Research Association.
Vanderbilt.edu reports the association bills itself as the world’s largest interdisciplinary research association devoted to the scientific study of education and learning. Milner’s presidency will begin at the conclusion of the association’s 2022 annual meeting.
With a focus on urban education and teacher education, Milner examines the social context of classrooms and schools and studies how teacher discourse, particularly about race, influences student learning, identity and development. He serves as the founding director of the Initiative for Race and Justice at Peabody and was elected to the National Academy of Education in March 2021.
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Pete Meenen and the Tennesseans We Lost to COVID-19
The state’s first resident claimed by a virus that went on to kill many more
On March 21, the Brentwood Family YMCA shared the news that Pete Meenen, a greeter at the gym and community center for more than 20 years, had died. He was the first person in Tennessee to die from COVID-19.
“Perhaps few faces in a YMCA are as recognizable as the greeter who meets the morning faithful, the early risers who start their day with us when the Welcome Center is a little quieter than usual,” the Brentwood Y’s operations executive, Roger D. Grove, wrote on Facebook. “For more than 20 years, Pete was that face in our YMCA, and his loss will be deeply felt by all of us, our staff and our members.”