Tag: Achievement Gap: Page 48

STEM

New Report Provides Policy Framework for States To Stem High School

Legislative action is imperative to better assist struggling students through high school and beyond, says Jobs For the Future (JFF), a nonprofit advocacy organization.

May 22, 2008

Latinx

Southern California Districts Facing ‘No Child Left Behind’ Sanctions

At Las Palmitas Elementary School, nestled between rundown homes and fields of grapes, peppers and dates in Southern California, 99 percent of students live in poverty and fewer than 20 percent speak English fluently.

May 13, 2008

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Perspectives: True Access to American Colleges & Universities

The federal government has a huge role to play in making college accessible and affordable. How about providing financial incentives to those institutions that are aggressively enrolling low-income students – the kind of students ever more present in the educational pipeline? What they should not do is impose spending rates on college endowments, as was proposed recently.

May 11, 2008

Students

Conference Highlights Successful Schools

When Ricardo Esparza became principal of Granger High School in South Central Washington state nine years ago, he walked into an environment where gangs roamed the halls, fights were common and academic performance was less than impressive.

May 6, 2008

Students

ON THE LOSING END

From the subprime mortgage crisis to the subsequent credit crunch, minorities are feeling the heat.

April 30, 2008

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Administration Changes To NCLB Include Mandate For Reporting H.S. Dropouts

Citing low high school graduation rates among many students, particularly minorities, the Bush administration on Tuesday outlined plans to hold schools accountable for their performance starting next year and to require the uniform reporting of dropout and completion data by 2013.

April 22, 2008

Students

New Report Highlights Schools That Make Minority Student Success a Priority

The causes of poor college graduation rates among low-income, first-generation and minority students have pervaded the pages of academic publication for years, while the instances in which African-American students have outperformed their White counterparts in the same area have gone largely undocumented.

April 20, 2008

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Getting to Know Reulan Levin

Dr. Reulan Levin remembers growing up on the South Side of Chicago where many of the students her age were falling to the perils of the streets.

April 16, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Texas Southern University President Plans New Direction for University

Texas Southern University has spent the last two years in the headlines because of financial mismanagement and the firing of previous president Priscilla Slade. Dr. John Rudley, the newly appointed president of TSU, discusses the new vision for the Houston historically Black university.

April 16, 2008

Community Colleges

PUTTING FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS FIRST

Faced with a growing population of first-generation students, many colleges are undertaking unique initiatives to recruit and retain these students.

April 16, 2008

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Ed Department To Require Uniform Reporting of Graduation Dropouts

With new data showing persistently low high school graduation rates in America’s large cities, the Bush administration outlined plans on Tuesday to hold states more accountable for accurate reporting of both graduates and dropout rates.

April 1, 2008

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ACLU Sues Palm Beach County School District Over Graduation Rates

The American Civil Liberties Union and other organizations have sued schools before over the equal distribution of resources, but a new lawsuit charges Palm Beach schools’ low graduation rates show the schools are violating students’ rights to a high-quality education, according to a story by the Palm Beach Post.

March 19, 2008