Tag: Achievement Gap: Page 52

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California students show only minimal gains on annual tests

SACRAMENTO After several years of steady progress, California students made few gains on academic achievement tests last year, according to the latest results released Wednesday by the state Department of Education.

August 14, 2007

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Black Students Receive F in Economics, According to National Report Card Assessment

WASHINGTON, D.C. When it comes to knowing the basics of economics, such as how banks use money deposited into checking accounts to fund loans and what the nation’s primary source of revenue is, Black students are the most clueless, according to the Nation’s Report Card on Economics.

August 14, 2007

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Tougher test requirements hurt Ohio student performance scores

COLUMBUS Ohio New science and social studies tests brought down the otherwise improving proficiency scores of Ohio’s K-12 students last year and contributed to a decline in the number of districts and schools receiving the highest “excellent” rating, figures released Tuesday show.

August 13, 2007

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Officials concerned by lack of reading improvement, persisting gap between whites and minorities on CMT

HARTFORD Conn. Students continued to fare poorly in reading on the 2007 Connecticut Mastery Test, though they improved in math and writing, according to results released Friday.

July 27, 2007

HBCUs

North Carolina HBCUs to Weather More Changes

RALEIGH, N.C. Despite an influx of money and students, North Carolina’s historically black public universities still face weak graduation rates and several financial problems.

July 17, 2007

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Perspectives: Ohio Gov. Focuses on Graduating Black Males, When Will Parents and Mentors Make Similar Commitment?

We must work together to change the “anti-academic” attitude among some of our young men as well as the perceptions within the education community about Black boys’ academic abilities that have kept them mired at the bottom of the education spectrum for too long now.

July 14, 2007

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Iowa Figures Show Blacks Have Lowest Graduation Rate

IOWA CITY, Iowa A member of the Iowa Board of Regents says a report showing that Black undergraduates are more likely than other minorities to leave the University of Iowa without a degree is cause for concern.

July 14, 2007

Students

Much Ado About Nothing?

Temple Coach Baffled by Concerns About Athletes’ Lower Graduation Rates

July 14, 2007

HBCUs

The surging degree wave

As the number of White students receiving college degrees has stayed steady for the last five years, the number of African American, Hispanic. Asian. and Native American degree recipients has soared.

July 12, 2007

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“This isn’t working!” New York’s mayor intends to take city’s community colleges out of the remediation business – Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani

New York In a starting pronouncement, New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani called on the city’s six community colleges late last month to halt all remedial education.

July 11, 2007

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Black caucus, others join opposition to national testing – Congressional Black Caucus

Opposition is building to President Clinton’s national testing proposal from a coalition that includes conservative Republicans and the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC).

July 11, 2007

Students

Arthur Ashe and the next generation of student athletes – Sports Scholars

With all the attention that we have finally come to pay to Arthur Ashe as a pioneering professional athlete and humanitarian it is easy to forget that Ashe was first an incredible college student-athlete at the University of California Los Angeles in the 1960s.

July 6, 2007