Tag: Achievement Gap: Page 35

Latinx

Hispanic, White Achievement Gap as Wide as in 1990s

The achievement gap between Hispanic and White students is the same as it was in the early 1990s, despite two decades of accountability reforms, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Education.

June 26, 2011

Home

2010 National Assessment of Educational Progress Shows Students Don’t Know Much About U.S. History

Just 13 percent of high school seniors who took the 2010 National Assessment of Educational Progress, called the Nation’s Report Card, showed a solid grasp of American history.

June 14, 2011

Home

New National Campaign Launched To Boost High School Graduation Rate

A group of representatives from the Campaign for High School Equity coalition unveiled the campaign’s new “Plan For Success” while urging lawmakers to take more decisive steps toward addressing the nation’s high dropout rate.

June 7, 2011

African-American

MSIs Seek To Defy Budget Trend By Lobbying for New Teacher Education Program

Under the proposal to Congress, a minority-serving college or university could obtain $500,000 a year for five years for enhancements to teacher education programs.

June 2, 2011

Students

Pell Institute Releases Research on DeVry

In an effort to distinguish itself within the embattled for-profit college sector, DeVry Inc. presented research that portrays the company as using effective student-centered practices for helping low-income students.

May 11, 2011

HBCUs

U.S. Higher Education Confronts Historic Financial Challenges, Part II

Diverse convened an expert panel to dissect the financial condition of public and private institutions. This is the second installment of a two-part series.

May 11, 2011

Community Colleges

Higher Education Leaders Must Boost College Completion Efforts, U.S. Education Department’s Kanter Says

Dr. Martha Kanter, U.S. Education Department Under Secretary, said Thursday that to achieve better rates of college completion, higher education leaders must make sure their perspectives and expertise play a bigger role in the national effort to define college and career readiness.

May 5, 2011

Students

La. Gov. Bobby Jindal Defends SUNO/UNO Merger in House Committee

Merging historically Black Southern University at New Orleans with the largely White University of New Orleans would give students better educational opportunities, Gov. Bobby Jindal told a Louisiana House committee.

May 4, 2011

Students

Race Complaints Persist With La. Governor Jindal’s Plan To Merge Schools

Gov. Bobby Jindal’s proposal renews a politically and racially charged argument that pops up periodically in the roughly 20 states that have public, four-year institutions known as historically Black colleges and universities.

April 27, 2011

Community Colleges

Community College Experts Urge Greater Collaboration To Boost Completion Rates

A policy symposium was convened to help bring attention to the role that community colleges are playing to fulfill the Obama Administration’s goal of producing the most college-educated workforce in the world by 2020.

April 27, 2011

Leadership & Policy

University of the West Indies Team Triumphs at HBCU Business Plan Competition

More than 300 students from 21 historically or predominantly Black colleges competed, presenting business proposals that ranged from construction and land surveying improvements to the mass production of Jamaican ginger.

April 17, 2011

Students

Arkansas Near Bottom in U.S. College Degrees Earned

A report by the Arkansas Department of Higher Education indicates fewer than 38 percent of those who entered the state’s public universities in 2004 had earned a degree within six years.

April 11, 2011