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Worst? Wisconsin Can’t Accept That: State Must Find Better Ways To Address Education Gap

EDITORIAL – AP from BELOIT NEWS Here in Wisconsin, much of the news about public education and academic performance is positive. Wisconsin students consistently rank above national averages in achievement. Unless, that is, we’re talking about Black students. According to figures released recently by the U.S. Department of Education, fourth- and eighth-grade Black students in […]

October 15, 2007

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Analysis: More Minority High School Students Graduating in Ohio Big Cities

COLUMBUS Ohio Urban minority high school students, a group that historically has had low graduation and attendance rates in Ohio, now have a better graduation rate than Black and Hispanic students elsewhere in the state, an analysis by a group of school administrators and teachers found.

October 14, 2007

Latinx

Improving Outcomes of Latino Students Focus of Forum

Latino college students who have the support of their families, start college planning by the eighth grade, take three or more years of mathematics, and start at a four-year institution are more likely to finish college, according to a new report that suggests these attributes form a strategy for closing the college-completion gap between Latino and Whites.

October 10, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Hispanic graduation rate at the University of Maryland lagging

The six-year graduation rate among Hispanic students at the University of Maryland is lagging behind those of white and Asian students by about 15 percent, university President Dan Mote said in his State of the Campus address this year.

October 8, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Hispanic graduation rate at the University of Maryland lagging

The six-year graduation rate among Hispanic students at the University of Maryland is lagging behind those of white and Asian students by about 15 percent, university President Dan Mote said in his State of the Campus address this year.

October 2, 2007

Recruitment & Retention

Purdue President Cordova sets retention, graduation goals in new strategic plan

WEST LAFAYETTE Ind. Purdue University will focus on increasing retention and graduation rates under a strategic plan taking shape under new President France Cordova.

October 1, 2007

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Suspect in killings of New Jersey college students has informal extradition hearing

ANNAPOLIS Md. A suspect in the execution-style slayings of three college students in Newark, N.J., had an informal extradition hearing Thursday.

September 19, 2007

Students

Nation’s largest school district wins top public education award

NEW YORK The nation’s largest school system has won the country’s top prize in public education that honors an urban district with the greatest student improvement and most success reducing achievement gaps among the poor and minorities.

September 17, 2007

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Fight or Flight

Ted Shaw and other diversity proponents retool while Ward Connerly gloats.

August 22, 2007

Community Colleges

College Prep For Tykes

When longtime educator David Silver began making plans for an elementary school, he asked parents in the Oakland, Calif., neighborhood what mattered most to them.

August 22, 2007

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Fight or Flight

Ted Shaw and other diversity proponents retool while Ward Connerly gloats.

August 22, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Disappearing Acts: The Vanishing Black Male On Community College Campuses

Many consider community colleges “open door” institutions, denoting their unique role of providing an affordable and quality education for the masses.

August 22, 2007