Tag: Achievement Gap: Page 57

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Report: College Enrollment Gender Gap Widens for White, Hispanic Students

The gap between White and Hispanic undergraduates has widened, according to a new gender equity study released Tuesday by the American Council on Education.

July 11, 2006

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Pre-K Education Seen As Key To Hispanic Achievement

Providing Hispanic children with access to high-quality pre-kindergarten education is an important first step toward closing the achievement gap, a new report suggests.

July 10, 2006

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Nation’s “Best Schools” Fail Minorities

Many of the high schools on Newsweek’s popular annual lists of the nation’s Top 100 schools have glaring achievement gaps between the races and high dropout rates, according to a new report.

June 28, 2006

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Perspectives: For Graduation Rates, Time to Carve a New Yardstick

In debates about accountability in higher education, few data points are as frequently misused as graduation rates.

June 28, 2006

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Scholars Cite History’s Legacy, Rap Music for Achievement Gap

Dr. Glenn C. Loury is losing sleep over the achievement gap between Blacks and Whites in public schools. But it’s not merely low test scores in the nation’s grammar and middle schools that disturbs him. It is America’s political leaders, who are leaving the job of fixing the nation’s racial disparities to educators alone.

June 25, 2006

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Operation Black Male

The media and scholarly literature are replete with countless reminders of the negative plight of…

May 31, 2006

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Research Round-up: Parenthood and Graduation Gap; Neighborhood Safety and Obesity; and Parent Education Predicts SAT Scores

A recent study in the journal Research in Higher Education found that 32 percent of Black women reported having had a child within five years of entering a four-year college.

May 7, 2006

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Where Are We Going?

The need for African-American teachers — not to mention Hispanic, American Indian and Asian teachers — is even more urgent than it was in August 1988, when Diverse’s predecessor…

April 19, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Kentucky Looks for Better Ways to Retain Minority College Students

Minority high school graduates are heading off to Kentucky colleges and universities in record numbers, but studies show they’re still lagging behind their White classmates when it comes to getting a four-year degree…

April 11, 2006

Community Colleges

States Make Progress Closing High School “Expectations Gap” But More Needs To Be Done, Report Finds

Just one year after 45 of the nation’s governors joined leaders from education and business to make high school reform a national priority…

February 22, 2006

Latinx

New Study Looks at Fragile Futures

Many high-achieving Latino students miss the opportunity to succeed academically because their needs are poorly understood…

February 21, 2006

Latinx

ETS Study Looks at Fragile Futures of High-achieving Latino Students

Many high-achieving Latino students miss the opportunity to succeed academically because their needs are poorly understood…

February 5, 2006