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Kaplan, EDU Inc. Team Up to Increase Educational Opportunities at HBCUs

Kaplan, EDU Inc. Team Up to Increase Educational Opportunities at HBCUsNEW YORKWorldwide educational services leader Kaplan Inc. announced it has become the exclusive K-12 partner for EDU Inc., a unique service for historically Black colleges and universities that enables students to apply to 29 member institutions through a single common application. Under the terms of […]

June 30, 2004

Conservative Scholars Ponder K-12 Education

Conservative Scholars Ponder K-12 EducationConference highlights include discussions of public school reform, closing racial achievement gapBy Ronald RoachNEW YORKDuring the week the nation commemorated the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation case, more than 200 conservative scholars and education officials gathered in New York […]

June 16, 2004

Tennessee State, Wiley College Launch NASA Academies

Tennessee State, Wiley College Launch NASA AcademiesNASHVILLE, Tenn.Tennessee State University in Nashville and Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, are the most recent historically Black campuses to launch sites of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Science, Engineering, Mathematics and Aerospace Academy (SEMAA)/Aerospace Education Laboratory (AEL) program. Last year, the NASA Glenn Research Center in […]

June 2, 2004

Magic Johnson Foundation Opens Miami Community Tech Center

Magic Johnson Foundation Opens Miami Community Tech CenterSAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif.Dr. Henry T. Nicholas III, co-founder and former CEO of the Broadcom Corporation, has announced a gift from the Nicholas Foundation of $10 million to St. Margaret’s Episcopal School in San Juan Capistrano and the formation of a collaboration with the University of California, Irvine […]

March 24, 2004

The Great Divide

The Great DivideRacial achievement gap gains recognition as national concern, but solution continues to elude educators, scholars and policymakers. By Ronald RoachAmericans know that Black and Latino children, by and large, are not reaching their full potential when it comes to learning and academic performance. But there are exceptions. The question that’s being increasingly asked […]

February 25, 2004

HBCUs Among Few Winners in Bush’s Budget Plan

HBCUs Among Few Winners in Bush’s Budget PlanFinancial aid programs see little, if any, gain Black colleges would receive more money next year while most student financial aid programs face freezes or cuts under President Bush’s new education budget.By percentages alone, minority-serving colleges and universities were one of the plan’s few winners in higher education. […]

February 25, 2004

Making The Case For Public Education

Making The Case For Public EducationFounded in 1857 “to elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching and to promote the cause of education in the United States,” the National Education Association has a long history of fighting for the rights of educators across the nation. That type of activism continues […]

January 28, 2004

Dean Announces Plan to Bolster K-12 Education, Reform No Child Left Behind Act

Dean Announces Plan to Bolster K-12 Education, Reform No Child Left Behind ActLeading Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean visited a school in Iowa last month to announce a plan to strengthen K-12 education that was long on promises but short on specifics.Dean unveiled his plan in Davenport, Iowa, before a group of more than 100 […]

December 17, 2003

Federal Grant Boosts Berkeley’s Environmental Outreach Efforts

Federal Grant Boosts Berkeley’s Environmental Outreach EffortsAs Mark Spencer sees it, students at the University of California-Berkeley have had too little guidance and resources to help them join community organizations in the San Francisco Bay area that are involved in environmental education and restoration projects. Spencer, a Ph.D. candidate in Forest Ecology at Berkeley’s College […]

November 5, 2003

Georgia On the Mind

Georgia On the MindThe state’s higher education system puts research, policy focus on Black males By Ronald RoachAmong education researchers and higher education administrators around the nation, it is well known that African American male college attendance and completion rates are lagging behind those of males in other racial and ethnic groups as well as […]

October 22, 2003

Education Spending Tops Congress’ Fall Agenda

Education Spending Tops Congress’ Fall AgendaTeacher education, welfare reform are among other hot-button issues to be addressed By Charles Dervarics After months of disappointing efforts in seeking student-aid increases, education advocates are pinning their hopes on a U.S. Senate plan that will come up for debate in September.A coalition of senators, mostly Democrats, is seeking […]

September 10, 2003

Education Schools Are Outmoded, Panelists Say

Education Schools Are Outmoded, Panelists SayBy Ben HammerWASHINGTONEducators at a recent forum debated whether education schools are preparing teachers to meet the goals their future employers have set for academic achievement. Several participants at the forum held by the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, stressed that most education schools fall short in focusing […]

July 2, 2003

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