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Rallying Around Education

Rallying Around EducationThe headline, “Minority Test Takers Make Significant Gains on SAT” sounds like pretty positive news. And it is, kind of. However, a closer look at the numbers reveals that African Americans still score the lowest on the standardized test among all racial and ethnic groups. Barely seeing their scores rise from year to […]

September 22, 2004

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Louisiana ACT Scores Improve, Remain Among Country’s Worst

Louisiana ACT Scores Improve, Remain Among Country’s WorstNEW ORLEANS High school students in Louisiana showed significant improvement on a major college entrance exam this year, but the state’s average score remained among the nation’s worst, according to results released in August. Louisiana’s average score on the ACT Assessment test rose to 19.8 from last year’s […]

September 8, 2004

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University of California System More Diverse Than Originally Thought

University of California System More Diverse Than Originally ThoughtResearch shows more than half of undergrads are immigrants or children of immigrants By Pamela Burdman      SACRAMENTO, Calif. The University of California has long been recognized as a diverse institution, but a new report reveals another dimension of that diversity: More than half of UC’s undergraduates are […]

August 25, 2004

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Knowledge Is Power

Knowledge Is PowerDouble the Numbers: Increasing Postsecondary Credentials for Underrepresented YouthEdited by Richard Kazis, Joel Vargas and Nancy HoffmanHarvard Education Press, 2004, 280 pp., $54.95 library, ISBN 1-891792-23-7; $28.95 paperback ISBN 1-891792-22-9Only 25 percent of U.S. high school students complete any college degree. Among African American youth, only 18 percent earn a baccalaureate by age […]

July 28, 2004

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Not Your Father’s Community College

Not Your Father’s Community CollegeNew programs, increased visibility boost two-year institutions’ appealBy Lydia LumPublic perception of community colleges has improved so much in the past two decades that they are no longer regarded as higher education’s last resort. Many two-year schools have increased the number and visibility of honors programs. They have signed deals with […]

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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New Report Finds Berkeley Admitting More Minorities Than Predicted

New Report Finds Berkeley Admitting More Minorities Than PredictedFindings provide new platform for debate over affirmative action, ‘comprehensive review’ policySAN FRANCISCOIn an announcement aimed at blunting attacks from its board chairman, the University of California released a study conceding that more Black and Latino students are being admitted to some UC campuses than a statistical […]

April 7, 2004

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Howard University Engineers Success

Howard University Engineers SuccessInterdisciplinary study keeps the university on the cutting edgeBY CASSIE M. CHEWLess than three months before graduation, Howard University engineering student Artis Johnson is displaying signs of “senoritis.” As he completes the coursework toward his bachelor’s degree in systems and computer science, he can’t keep his thoughts off of graduation day or that […]

March 10, 2004

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In the Know

In the Know So your child is considering an honors program or college. What are the things you need to know? •Get a reputable guide and look at the overall institution — not just the honors component. Ask yourself if the institution as a whole has the type of programs the student is interested in […]

February 25, 2004

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Admissions Controversy Embroils Berkeley Again

Admissions Controversy Embroils Berkeley AgainRegents chairman questions low-scoring SAT admits, leaks report to newspaperBy Pamela BurdmanBERKELEY, Calif.Just when it seemed that the University of California was finally moving beyond divisions over race in admissions, a new controversy has erupted at the Berkeley campus, garnering an onslaught of headlines around the state and a rebuke for […]

December 31, 2003

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Caltech to Host Summer Science Program for High-School Students

VIENNA, Va.The Virginia-based Center for Excellence in Education (CEE), furthering its mission of nurturing careers of leadership and excellence in science and technology, is teaming up with the California Institute of Technology to host the Research Science Institute (RSI), a six-week summer program for academically talented high-school science students. Beginning in 2004 from June 27 […]

December 3, 2003

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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