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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

Latinx

Saturday School

Saturday SchoolWriting in last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Grutter v. Bollinger affirmative action case, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor surmised that in 25 years race-conscious affirmative action won’t be needed because disparities in educational performance between disadvantaged minorities and their White and Asian American peers will have been eliminated. Her conjecture on the […]

February 25, 2004

Students

Gates Foundation Releases Study of Higher Education Scholarship Program

Gates Foundation Releases Study of Higher Education Scholarship ProgramWASHINGTONThe Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS) program since 1999 has offered more than 7,000 minority students “last dollar” scholarship awards for undergraduate, master’s and Ph.D. programs. The program recently released a study that profiled current and past participants’ success as a result of the scholarships.The attitudes and expectations […]

November 19, 2003

Latinx

America Loses Ground in College Access, Participation, Study Finds

America Loses Ground in College Access, Participation, Study FindsWASHINGTONAmerica has fallen alarmingly behind other industrialized countries in access to and participation in college, which encompasses most education and training beyond high school, according to a recent study.  “Closing the College Participation Gap,” released last month by the Education Commission of the States (ECS), paints a […]

October 22, 2003

Latinx

Beacons of Hope

Beacons of HopeSECME Inc. partners with minority-serving institutions to create alternative high schools to increase high school, college completion ratesBy Phaedra Brotherton In 2000, only 18 percent of all African American and 10 percent of Hispanics completed a four-year degree by age 29, compared with 34 percent of Whites (total populations), according to the U.S. […]

June 4, 2003

Latinx

Presidential Commission Targets Hispanic Achievement

Presidential Commission Targets Hispanic AchievementBy Charles Dervarics To increase Hispanic student achievement, the nation should support new efforts on student retention and career programs that lead to college graduation, a presidential commission says. Noting one of every three Hispanics fail to complete high school and just 10 percent graduate from four-year colleges, the President’s Advisory […]

May 7, 2003

Latinx

Living in a Post-Affirmative Action World

Living in a Post-Affirmative Action WorldRuling against Michigan could boost minority achievement, says one scholar. But others are not so optimistic. By Ronald Roach Even though the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to rule on the constitutionality of the University of Michigan’s undergraduate and law school admissions plans, Americans already are living in a post-affirmative […]

February 26, 2003

Latinx

Hispanic, Higher Education Groups Urge Bush Support of Affirmative Action

Hispanic, Higher Education Groups Urge Bush Support of Affirmative Action WASHINGTONHispanic and higher education leaders called on President George W. Bush earlier this month to demonstrate his administration’s support of the affirmative action policies currently under review by the U.S. Supreme Court. Anticipating what will be a landmark ruling on affirmative action, the leaders urged […]

January 29, 2003

Latinx

National Survey of Hispanic Adults

National Survey of Hispanic AdultsThe Latino Coalition commissioned the following survey, which was conducted by McLaughlin & Associates’ Opiniones Latinas. One-thousand Hispanic adults in the United States were interviewed from Aug. 2-4, 2002, for this survey. Black Issues presents excerpts from the survey. Percentage of respondents who answered the following questions:Q: What is your national […]

September 25, 2002

Latinx

Getting a Piece … Political Power Pie

Getting a Piece … Political Power PieThe Latino population’s diversity makes appealing to this electorate a difficult task By Kendra HamiltonWhen the 2000 Census revealed that the Latino population had become the nation’s most populous minority a decade earlier than projected, the media began speculating how this would translate at the ballot box.  “Will Minorities […]

September 25, 2002

Latinx

Hispanics Enroll in College at High Rates, But Many Fail to Graduate

Hispanics Enroll in College at High Rates, But Many Fail to GraduateWASHINGTONU.S.-born children of Hispanic immigrants were nearly as likely as Whites to enroll in college, but less than half as likely to earn bachelor’s degrees, according to a report released earlier this month.“They’re going to college, but they’re not finishing college,” says Dr. Richard […]

September 25, 2002

Latinx

Barnard Study Links Gender, Academic Success Among Mexican Americans

Barnard Study Links Gender, Academic Success Among Mexican Americans  NEW YORKBarnard sociology professor Dr. Robert Smith’s research shows that Mexican American females are more selective when it comes to education than their male counterparts. Interestingly, Smith’s research connects the role of gender and how it leads to academic promise or academic failure.“One of the most […]

June 5, 2002