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Iowa’s Black Athletes Lag Behind in Graduation Rates

Iowa’s Black Athletes Lag Behind in Graduation RatesDES MOINES, IowaBlack athletes at three of Iowa’s largest colleges graduated at rates far below the national average for Division I schools, The Des Moines Register reported. Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa reported that 33 percent of Black athletes at the schools graduated within […]

December 1, 2004

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Getting to the Heart Of the Achievement Gap

Getting to the Heart Of the Achievement Gap PRINCETON, N.J.Billed as the “African American, Hispanic and Native American Educational Achievement Symposium,” the Educational Testing Service (ETS) convened a two-day forum at their Princeton, N.J., headquarters to highlight informative research and data on the achievement gap among U.S. schoolchildren. The research presentations focused on the educational […]

November 17, 2004

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Report: Minority Students Still Lag Behind In Spite of Improved Fourth-Grade Reading Lessons

Report: Minority Students Still Lag Behind In Spite of Improved Fourth-Grade Reading LessonsPRINCETON, N.J. The overall health of the nation’s fourth-grade reading instruction is good, however, many minority students do not share equally in educational resources, quality teachers, and smaller classes, reports a new Educational Testing Service (ETS) study. The report called, “The Fourth-Grade Reading […]

November 3, 2004

Students

From Mississippi to Miami

From Mississippi to MiamiFlorida International University recruits legendary civil rights activist Bob Moses and his nationally recognized math literacy projectBy Ronald RoachFew historic episodes in American history have imparted a more potent plea for social justice and inclusion than the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. In the past two decades, legendary activist […]

October 20, 2004

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Report: U.S. Falling Behind in Percentage

Report: U.S. Falling Behind in Percentage Of Young Adults With High School DiplomaWASHINGTON A  growing number of nations are doing a better job than the United States in getting young people through high school and college, a study found. Among adults ages 25 to 34, for example, the United States is 10th among other industrialized […]

October 6, 2004

Latinx

Surging in the Southeast

Surging in the Southeast North Carolina HBCUs expected to play significant role in facilitating college access for the increasing Latino population in the region By Ronald Roach Given the surging growth in the U.S. Latino population in recent years, nowhere have those increases been occurring faster than in the southeast. North Carolina, Arkansas and Georgia, […]

September 22, 2004

Leadership & Policy

Minority Test Takers Make Significant Gains on SAT

Minority Test Takers Make Significant Gains on SATBut achievement gap between White, minority students persists By Cassie ChewWASHINGTONAmong the record 1.4 million college-bound students in the class of 2004 who took the SAT, another record number of these SAT takers, 37 percent, were minority students, the College Board said in its annual report of SAT […]

September 22, 2004

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Failing Our Black Children

Failing Our Black ChildrenThis year marks the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, which theoretically ended school segregation in America. But many schools are as segregated today as they were before the ruling, and Black children throughout the United States are performing at the bottom of the American educational system. The nation’s capital, […]

September 22, 2004

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The Real Deal on Black Unemployment

The Real Deal on Black UnemploymentEvery month, when unemployment rate data are released, the news for African Americans is bleak. No matter what the overall unemployment rate is (5.6 percent in June), the Black unemployment rate is higher. Indeed, it is usually at least twice the White rate. In June 2004, for example, the White […]

August 11, 2004

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Study Reveals Boarding School Is Springboard for Success

Study Reveals Boarding School Is Springboard for SuccessWASHINGTONStudents who attend boarding schools find greater success than their peers in college and in adult life, according to a new study conducted by the Arts & Science Group of Baltimore on behalf of The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS).For the study, the Arts & Science Group interviewed […]

August 11, 2004

Students

Reforms Needed to Boost Graduation Rates, Educators Tell Congress

Reforms Needed to Boost Graduation Rates, Educators Tell CongressBy Peggy OrchowskiAmerica’s college graduation rates need a shot in the arm, according to educators who recently discussed the renewal of the Higher Education Act with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Without reforms, the educators agreed, the country’s future is in danger.“Today, (only) 63 percent of students who […]

August 11, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Award-Winning Approaches to Retention

Award-Winning Approaches to RetentionHigher education consulting firm Noel-Levitz recognizes a handful of universities with the most effective retention programsRetaining incoming freshmen is one of the most critical issues colleges and universities face, particularly among minority, poor and first-generation students. Though university retention programs share many similarities, institutions take many different and innovative approaches to best […]

July 16, 2004