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Tag: Achievement Gap: Page 43

Achievement Gaps Show Little Change for Black Students

Despite some progress since 1990, Black students continue to trail White students significantly in both math and reading at critical stages of K-12 education, a new federal report says.

July 14, 2009

Leadership & Policy

LASTWORD

From my childhood in Afghanistan to my current role as an American university president, I have been blessed with many opportunities to explore different cultures.

July 8, 2009

THE ACHIEVEMENT CLUB

At first, she was compelled by tremendous professional interest. It “was hit or miss,” she says of her efforts. “I would find one Black boy who was very smart and making good grades, and he felt isolated because there were three or four others who were not focused on academics. So I thought, ‘maybe if […]

July 8, 2009

REPORT: COLLEGE GRADUATION RATES COULD DRAMATICALLY DECLINE

LANSDOWNE, VA. College graduation rates will decline precipitously nationally in the coming years if nothing is done to improve the completion rates of Black and Hispanic students, who represent the fastest growing student populations in colleges and universities.

July 8, 2009

The Achievement Club

After seeing her son lose his zeal for school, one mother joined forces with other parents to form an organization that fosters a culture of high achievement for Black males.

July 8, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Look to Diversity for America’s Re-emergence

The key to America’s success is to educate its increasingly diverse population.

July 8, 2009

The Browning of U.S. Higher Education

Changing student demographics may prove the most formidable ever for American colleges and universities as well as for public K-12 school systems, scholars say.

June 10, 2009

On Accountability – Achieving President Obama’s College Completion Goal

Higher education institutions must answer the call to see more students through to graduation.

June 10, 2009

College Graduation Rates Could Dramatically Decline, If Minorities Don’t Improve College Completion, Report Says

College graduation rates will decline precipitously nationally in the coming years if nothing is done to improve the postsecondary completion rates of Black and Hispanic students, who represent the fastest growing student populations in colleges and universities, says the latest annual report released by the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB).

June 8, 2009

Higher Education Association Blasts Graduation Rate Data Used in Think Tank Report

One week after the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative Washington-based think tank, released a report scrutinizing colleges and universities with low six-year graduation rates, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) issued a policy brief criticizing the way graduation rate information is collected.

June 8, 2009

Studies Offer Conflicting Results On ‘Obama Effect’

Could merely knowing that a Black man has been elected president of the United States raise the scores of Blacks on standardized tests and shrink the unrelenting and formidable achievement gap?

June 3, 2009

Report Scrutinizes Colleges With Low Graduation Rates, Including MSIs

Less than 60 percent of new students graduate from the nation’s four-year colleges and universities within six years, according to a new study, and the rate is even lower at most of the historically Black and Hispanic-serving institutions included in the study.

June 2, 2009

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