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Charter Schools Produce Higher Test Scores, But Segregated Environment

Charter Schools Produce Higher Test Scores, But Segregated EnvironmentRecent studies assess race, academic achievement in the nation’s charter schools By Ben Hammer WASHINGTON Charter school students perform slightly better on standardized tests than their public school counterparts, but go to schools that tend to be racially segregated, two recent studies have found. A study by […]

August 27, 2003

Latinx

Teacher-Training Bill Offers Help for HBCUs, Others

Teacher-Training Bill Offers Help for HBCUs, OthersBy Charles Dervarics Minority-serving institutions may house Centers of Excellence devoted to teacher training under legislation the House of Representatives has approved this summer. The Ready to Teach Act would create high-quality teacher-training programs at historically Black colleges, Hispanic-serving colleges and tribal colleges. The act reserves about $10 million […]

August 27, 2003

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Study: Nation’s Charter Schools Are Places of Racial Isolation

Study: Nation’s Charter Schools Are Places of Racial IsolationCAMBRIDGE, Mass. The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (CRP) released a new study ­earlier this month on segregation patterns in the nation’s charter schools. “Charter Schools and Race: A Lost Opportunity for Integrated Education,” written by Erica Frankenberg and Chungmei Lee, is the third in a […]

July 30, 2003

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Testing’s Pains & Gains

Testing’s Pains & Gains Southern states see increase in the number of students taking SAT, ACT, as well as in test scores, but some states get it and some don’tBy Kendra Hamilton   View Related Charts Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view the above listed chart(s). If you do not have Acrobat Reader installed […]

June 4, 2003

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Southern States Improve College Entrance Exam Scores, But Still Lag Nationally

Southern States Improve College Entrance Exam Scores, But Still Lag NationallyCHARLESTON, W.Va.Scores on college entrance exams in the South improved over the last decade, but a dozen states in the region remain among the bottom 15 in the nation, according to a study released last month. The study by the Atlanta-based Southern Regional Education Board […]

May 21, 2003

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A Nation Still at Risk, Panel Says

A Nation Still at Risk, Panel SaysTwo decades after publication of landmark education study, scholars find little progressBy Ben HammerWASHINGTONIn late April, the U.S. Department of Education brought a handful of leading scholars together to mark the anniversary of the 1983 report “A Nation at Risk” that brought the country’s attention to a broken education […]

May 21, 2003

HBCUs

Taking a Stand on the Movement

Taking a Stand on the MovementSome in HBCU Community Oppose Bachelor Degree Programs at Community Colleges, Others Say Wait and See As president of Jackson State University, Mississippi’s largest four-year historically Black university, Dr. Ronald Mason has a clear position on the prospect of the state’s community colleges offering four-year degree programs. While state officials […]

May 21, 2003

Students

Overcoming the Black-White Achievement Gap

Overcoming the Black-White Achievement Gap Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement By John U. Ogbu Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc., 2003352 pp., $69.95 cloth, ISBN 0-8058-4515-1, $32.50 paper, ISBN 0-8058-4516-XBy Ronald Roach The affirmative action debate brought on by the U.S. Supreme Court’s consideration of the reverse discrimination lawsuits filed […]

April 23, 2003

African-American

UCLA Report Finds Latinos, Blacks Most Likely To be Missed by Census

UCLA Report Finds Latinos, Blacks Most Likely To be Missed by Census LOS ANGELESLatinos and African Americans in Los Angeles County account for a disproportionate number of people who were not counted in Census 2000, according to a new UCLA analysis. Los Angeles County neighborhoods with the highest undercount rates also had high levels of […]

January 29, 2003

Sports

Study: Many Bowl Teams Fail to Make the Grade

Study: Many Bowl Teams Fail to Make the Grade ORLANDO, Fla.College football teams playing in this season’s bowl games may be high scorers on the field, but a new study reveals the opposite may be true off the field, particularly when it comes to graduation rates. The study, “Keeping Score When It Counts: Graduation Rates […]

January 15, 2003

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Big City Scholar

Big City Scholar Mary PattilloTitle: Associate Professor, Departments of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University; Visiting Fellow, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, University of ChicagoEducation: Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago; M.A., Sociology, University of Chicago; B.A., Urban Studies-Sociology, Columbia UniversityAge: 32 At 32, Dr. Mary Pattillo is a tenured professor […]

January 1, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Letters

LETTERS   Dear Editor:Your recent article “The Disconnect Between Colleges and Their Communities” inaccurately suggested that the University of Maryland does very little for its home, Prince George’s County. Since the reporter did very little to find out just how active the university really is in the county, and throughout the state, it’s important to correct […]

October 9, 2002