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Jump Starting Latino Achievement

Lorretta Chavez knows that for poor Mexican American children in Colorado…

September 27, 2006

Science Revolution in Minority Communities Theme of SACNAS Conference

Students and science educators will gather later this month for the annual Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) conference held in Tampa, Fla. Pertinent to a much talked-about issue – the theme of this year’s conference is “Science Revolution in Minority Communities: What Progress Have We Made?”

September 23, 2006

Needed: More Parental Input

I think [the column] highlights some of the problems with entrusting the education of our young people to the public school system…

September 20, 2006

Jump Starting Latino Achievement

Lorretta Chavez knows that for poor Mexican American children in Colorado…

September 20, 2006

Community Colleges

Congress Defies Bush Budget, Approves Extension of Perkins Act

Despite steady criticism from the Bush administration, the nation’s career and technical education programs…

September 6, 2006

Leadership & Policy

The Corporate Chancellor

Add the name Erroll B. Davis Jr. to the ever-growing list of chancellors who have been plucked from the world of business and industry…

September 6, 2006

Civil Rights Commission Takes On Diversity In K-12 Schools

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights assembled a panel of experts last month to discuss whether elementary…

August 23, 2006

No Pell Grant Increase In Senate Budget

Plans to increase the maximum Pell Grant for needy students hit a snag in the U.S. Senate this week, as members of a powerful committee voted to freeze the top grant again in 2007.

July 18, 2006

New Scholarship Program Really Vouchers2.0?

Four congressional Republicans joined U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings on Tuesday to unveil a new initiative to provide $4,000 scholarships to at-risk, K-12 youth who want to leave failing public schools for private education.

July 17, 2006

Civil Rights Panel: Law School Affirmative Action May Hurt Blacks

Is American Bar Association-mandated affirmative action among U.S. law schools ultimately helping or hurting prospective Black attorneys?…

July 12, 2006

Emory Brings Slave Trade Database to the Web

Emory University scholars were recently awarded grants to make accessible and free on the Internet a mammoth database of the voyages of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.

July 9, 2006

Another Supreme Test?

The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to hear arguments in two K-12 school assignment cases…

June 28, 2006

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