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Center for Equal Opportunity Now Targets State of Maryland

Center for Equal Opportunity Now Targets State of MarylandBy Linda Meggett Brown and the Associated PressBALTIMOREA dmissions practices at Maryland’s public schools and colleges are the latest targets of the Center for Equal Opportunity, which has released a study indicating that Black students are getting in with lower SAT scores than those of White students.The […]

October 25, 2000

Students

Five Specific Steps to Improving Hispanic Achievement

Five Specific Steps to Improving Hispanic AchievementOne of the things I have learned traveling across America is just how diverse Hispanic America is, something that a lot of Americans really don’t know yet. I think there is a common core of values around family and community and work and faith, but Hispanic America is growing […]

September 27, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Poor Strategies Continue to Plague Black Test-Takers

Poor Strategies Continue to Plague Black Test-Takers Officials from the College Board announced last month that this year’s national average SAT math score is at a 30-year high, but African American test-takers still came in with the lowest average among ethnic groups for the test’s math section. Although math scores for all ethnic groups have […]

September 27, 2000

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ACT Reports Lower Dropout, Graduation Rates

ACT Reports Lower Dropout,  Graduation Rates The percentage of freshman college dropouts has declined for the third consecutive year, while the number of students graduating has reached an all-time low, according to a recent report by the American College Testing.Of the students who enrolled in four-year colleges in the fall of 1997, 25.9 percent failed […]

March 29, 2000

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Modest Gains in Enrollment, Says New ACE Report

Modest Gains in Enrollment, Says New ACE ReportWASHINGTON — Minority students continued to make modest enrollment gains on the nation’s college campuses in 1997, according to a report released last month by the American Council on Education here.The college-going rate of minority students rose by 3.7 percent between 1996 and 1997, slightly higher than the […]

March 1, 2000

African-American

BI News Briefs

Miss. HBCU Has New Competition for Students, Funds JACKSON, Miss. — In a ruling praised by education partisans on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a federal judge will allow a four-year college program to begin accepting students as early as next summer, if funding allows. Eight months after blocking college expansion plans on the Gulf Coast, […]

December 22, 1999

Students

Achieving Career Satisfaction in the Academy

Achieving Career Satisfaction in the AcademyToday’s headlines are full of stories about the most vexing of problems in education. How to provide a good education to all students? How to close the achievement gap between Black and White students? How to prepare educators to teach students of color? What’s going to happen now that court-ordered […]

November 24, 1999

Students

Expanding The Top Tier

Expanding The Top Tier  College Board calls for ‘affirmative development’ to enlarge pool of high-achieving students of colorNEW YORK — Although considerable national efforts have been directed at bringing poor students and students of color up to minimal standards academically, little effort has been focused towards ensuring that African American, Latino, and Native American children […]

November 10, 1999

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Texas Test Patterns

Texas Test PatternsWhile Lawsuit Says High School Exit Exam Discriminates, Report Shows Achievement Gap Is Closing in Two School DistrictsAUSTIN, Texas  — The outcome of a lawsuit over an exit-level high school examination in Texas could have ramifications for other states that require students to pass a statewide test to receive a diploma. The lawsuit filed […]

October 27, 1999

Sports

Black Basketball Players’ Graduation Rates Sink

Black Basketball Players’ Graduation Rates SinkINDIANAPOLIS — Graduation rates for African American college athletes in both men’s and women’s basketball sank again, setting off fresh concern that schools care more a winning season than academic excellence.The National Collegiate Athletic Association reported this month the graduation rate for black male basketball players at the nation’s biggest […]

September 15, 1999

HBCUs

Rising Numbers Proportionally Flat

Rising Numbers Proportionally FlatThis year’s Top 100 data reveal that while there are more graduates of color, their percentage of the overall graduating pool remains constantAn examination of this year’s Top 100 data reveals encouraging news: people of color continue to strive for social and economic parity through baccalaureate degree attainment. Though the total number […]

July 7, 1999