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Academic Accountability For ‘Our Children’

Academic Accountability For ‘Our Children’Thank you Black Issues. Your recent review of John Ogbu’s Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study in Academic Disengagement spurred me to purchase and critically read this text. As an educator, I am, of course, aware of the persistent academic achievement gap between African American and European American […]

July 16, 2004

African-American

High School Students Uncover Common Goals, Troubling Differences Among Peers

High School Students Uncover Common Goals, Troubling Differences Among PeersNEW YORKA piercing new look by New York metro region high school students at race and education affirms their strong support for racially integrated schools, but cautions that 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education access to quality education and resources have not been fully […]

July 14, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Teach for America Teachers Outperform Colleagues, Study Reveals

Teach for America Teachers Outperform Colleagues, Study RevealsPRINCETON, N.J. Students of Teach for America (TFA) teachers outscored their schoolmates on math achievement tests and matched their average performance in reading, according to a national study of the program recently released by Mathematica Policy Research Inc.The study compared the performance of corps members from Teach for […]

June 30, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Giants in the Classroom

Giants in the Classroom Twenty influential scholars whose work has inspired others and made a significant impact on the academy Over the past two decades, Black Issues’ writers and editors have featured hundreds, perhaps thousands, of faculty in the magazine’s stories and interviews. Deciding on 20 faculty members whose research, teaching and service set them […]

June 16, 2004

Students

On The Right Path

On The Right PathOver the past 20 years, colleges and universities continue to experience an increase in the number of American Indian/Alaska Native students receiving degreesAccounting for only 1 percent of the total U.S. population, American Indians have a 60 percent to 70 percent high school dropout rate, the highest among all minority groups. At […]

June 16, 2004

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50 Years Later:

50 Years Later:Can current education policy finish the work started with Brown?By Karin ChenowethBlack Issues In Higher Education first started publishing a year after the 1983 “A Nation at Risk” report shocked many into taking seriously the sorry nature of elementary and secondary education in this country. The report’s dire warnings of a “rising tide […]

June 16, 2004

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Brown Anniversary Speakers Say Anger Needed in Debate Over Education

Brown Anniversary Speakers Say Anger Needed in Debate Over EducationTOPEKA, Kan. Activists need to be as angry now about inadequate public schools as they were during the 1960s about Blacks being denied their civil rights, speakers at an NAACP conference on education said last month.Kweisi Mfume, NAACP president and chief executive officer, told conference participants […]

June 16, 2004

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Conservative Scholars Ponder K-12 Education

Conservative Scholars Ponder K-12 EducationConference highlights include discussions of public school reform, closing racial achievement gapBy Ronald RoachNEW YORKDuring the week the nation commemorated the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation case, more than 200 conservative scholars and education officials gathered in New York […]

June 16, 2004

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TheView from Topeka

TheView from TopekaBy Kendra HamiltonIt’s a little-known fact, but, 50 years ago, the junior high and high schools of Topeka, Kan., were integrated — though in name only. Fear was the order of the day at the high school, where an African American assistant superintendent by the name of Harrison Caldwell roamed the halls as […]

May 19, 2004

Sports

Let the Games Begin

Let the Games Begin— AgainHBCU coaches and administrators give their play-by-play accounts of the benefits of reviving college football programs By Crystal L. KeelsIt’s the pageantry, the precision, the rhythm and the music. It’s wave after wave of energetic flute, trumpet, tuba and drum players wearing colorful uniforms and executing intricate steps. It’s the dramatic […]

April 7, 2004

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Minorities Have ‘50-50’ Chance of Graduating High School, Study Finds

Minorities Have ‘50-50′ Chance of Graduating High School, Study FindsWASHINGTONHalf or more of Black, Hispanic and American Indian youth in the United States are getting left behind before high-school graduation, according to a new study.The result is a “hidden crisis” that is obscured by regulations issued under the No Child Left Behind Act that “allow […]

March 24, 2004

Students

Facing Up to Realities

Facing Up to Realities: Harvard economist investigates the racial achievement gap. As an economist, Dr. Ronald F. Ferguson often applies quantitative analysis to public policy dilemmas, which yields data models and quantitative measures of complex issues. In tackling the racial achievement gap, the Harvard-based social policy expert has added investigation techniques from sociology and psychology […]

February 25, 2004