Tag: Achievement Gap: Page 19

African-American

HBCUX Network Ready for Its Opening Act

The Washington-based social media venture aims to distinguish itself enough to be considered a valued complement to the growing cast of social media sites courting HBCU audiences.

April 3, 2014

Students

Morgan State Constructing New School of Business in Honor of Earl Graves

Morgan State University is constructing an $80 million facility that will house the School of Business and Management, which was named in 2005 after Black Enterprise magazine founder Earl G. Graves Sr.

March 25, 2014

Students

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March 20, 2014

Faculty & Staff

St. Mary’s College of Maryland Names Tuajuanda Jordan President

St. Mary’s College of Maryland has named a dean and scientist from Lewis and Clark College as the school’s next president.

March 19, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Diverse Docket: Southern Miss Wins Race, Origin, Ethnic Suit from Former Grad Student

Court of Appeals upholds decision that dismissed the case of Maria Salcido vs. the University of Southern Mississippi for race, national origin and ethnic discrimination.

March 16, 2014

Community Colleges

Colleges Offer to Pay Students to Take Year Off

Colleges are paying students to take a year off after high school to travel, volunteer or do internships so that they can benefit from “gap years.”

March 16, 2014

Home

Common Core Panel Says Limit Time Teaching to Test

ALBANY, N.Y.—A panel created by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to look into New York’s rollout of the Common Core curriculum recommended Monday banning standardized tests for the youngest students and capping the amount of instructional time that can be used for test prep.

March 11, 2014

MSIs

Moving Beyond the Nasty in SCA-5, California’s New Affirmative Action Debate

The battle lines are being drawn along party and racial lines.

March 10, 2014

Students

Study: College Bound Scholarship Program Sending Low-Income Kids to College

Low-income kids who participate in Washington’s College Bound scholarship program are going to college at nearly the same rate as their richer classmates and well ahead of other poor children who did not sign up, according to a new report released Monday.

March 10, 2014

Leadership & Policy

DA: No Charges for Crowder in University of North Carolina Fraud Case

Problems in the African and Afro-American Studies department included classes that didn’t meet and unauthorized grade changes.

March 5, 2014

Latinx

Former NAACP President Moves to Venture Capital

Ben Jealous says he wants to grow opportunities for Blacks and Latinos in the tech economy.

March 4, 2014

Home

At MIT, Weighing Balance of Privacy and Big Data

White House counselor John Podesta said the government must figure out how to allow the public and private sector to capitalize on the benefits of big data, while protecting individual privacy.

March 3, 2014