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Latinx

Jump Starting Latino Achievement

Lorretta Chavez knows that for poor Mexican American children in Colorado…

September 27, 2006

Latinx

Jump Starting Latino Achievement

Lorretta Chavez knows that for poor Mexican American children in Colorado…

September 20, 2006

Community Colleges

Congress Defies Bush Budget, Approves Extension of Perkins Act

Despite steady criticism from the Bush administration, the nation’s career and technical education programs…

September 6, 2006

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Civil Rights Commission Takes On Diversity In K-12 Schools

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights assembled a panel of experts last month to discuss whether elementary…

August 23, 2006

HBCUs

Before You EXIT

Dr. Walter M. Kimbrough knows he’s in the minority on the issue of testing…

August 23, 2006

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Civil Rights Commission Takes On Diversity In Schools

WASHINGTON The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights assembled a panel of experts on Friday to discuss the educational and non-educational benefits of diversity for students in elementary and secondary education.

July 29, 2006

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No Pell Grant Increase In Senate Budget

Plans to increase the maximum Pell Grant for needy students hit a snag in the U.S. Senate this week, as members of a powerful committee voted to freeze the top grant again in 2007.

July 18, 2006

Students

New Scholarship Program Really Vouchers2.0?

Four congressional Republicans joined U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings on Tuesday to unveil a new initiative to provide $4,000 scholarships to at-risk, K-12 youth who want to leave failing public schools for private education.

July 17, 2006

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Scholars Cite History’s Legacy, Rap Music for Achievement Gap

Dr. Glenn C. Loury is losing sleep over the achievement gap between Blacks and Whites in public schools…

July 12, 2006

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Report: States, Federal Government Not Imposing NCLB Civil Rights Provisions

The Citizens’ Commission on Civil Rights has called for greater enforcement of the No Child Left Behind requirement that states and districts ensure poor and minority students are not disproportionably taught by inexperienced teachers.

July 5, 2006

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Virginia Study Urges Early Science Education

Among a group of eighth-graders asked in 1988 what careers they wanted as adults…

June 28, 2006

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Scholars Cite History’s Legacy, Rap Music for Achievement Gap

Dr. Glenn C. Loury is losing sleep over the achievement gap between Blacks and Whites in public schools. But it’s not merely low test scores in the nation’s grammar and middle schools that disturbs him. It is America’s political leaders, who are leaving the job of fixing the nation’s racial disparities to educators alone.

June 25, 2006