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Symposium Highlights Need for Diversity in Health Professions

Symposium Highlights Need for Diversity in Health ProfessionsBy Ronald RoachWASHINGTON Organizers of a health professions symposium on diversity last month placed considerable emphasis on education reform and minority academic achievement research. As a result, nationally recognized scholars and higher education officials urged nearly 300 symposium participants to familiarize themselves with academic achievement research and to […]

April 11, 2001

Bush’s Education Reform Plan Offers Proposals

Bush’s Education Reform Plan Offers Proposals On College-School PartnershipsBut initiatives focus almost exclusively on elementary and secondary educationPresident Bush’s new education reform plan is drawing cautious support across the political spectrum except for one provision with political dynamite — vouchers for poor children.Late last month Bush outlined a series of initiatives, including substantial funding increases […]

February 14, 2001

Boehner Selected to Chair Education Committee

Boehner Selected to Chair Education CommitteeThe transition of power is nearly complete in the House of Representatives, and there are new leaders on two panels critical to higher education.Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, was elected chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, which sets policy for the Higher Education Act and K-12 education. In […]

January 31, 2001

State Policies Greatly Impact Minority Access To Higher Education

State Policies Greatly Impact Minority Access To Higher EducationWashingtonThe state you live in can make an unexpectedly large difference in determining whether you’ll be able to attend college — especially if you’re a minority student in a lower income bracket, according to the the National Center for Public Policy in Higher Education’s Measuring Up 2000 […]

December 20, 2000

Disciplines as Frameworks for Student Learning

Enlarging and Diversifying Our Technical Talent Pool

Enlarging and Diversifying Our Technical Talent PoolT he idea was classically simple. Not just to educate our best young minds to the highest levels, but to deliver on the promise that all children can learn and achieve. That was the beginning, 25 years ago, of what first was known as the Southeast Consortium, then Southeast […]

November 22, 2000

Census Bureau Predicts Minorities Will Become Majority by 2050

Census Bureau Predicts Minorities Will Become Majority by 2050The U.S. Census Bureau is predicting that students of color will become the majority in K-12 classrooms by the middle of the 21st century. Already, 37 percent of elementary and secondary school enrollment is composed of students of color.A recent report, “Educating the Emerging Majority,” warns that […]

October 11, 2000

If Children Are the Future, Invest in Them Today

If Children Are the Future, Invest in Them TodayAs young people begin their trek back to school this fall, too many of them will be going to crowded and run-down classrooms. A full third of all public schools use portable classrooms. One-fifth have less than adequate safety features, including leaky roofs and spotty electrical power. […]

September 27, 2000

Remediation Reform

Remediation ReformOnly time will tell whether California’s remediation policy will continue to turn out success stories or if disadvantaged students who can’t catch up in time will mark the system’s biggest failure. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Brandon Kountz is feeling the pressure. Having completed his first year of classes at California State University-Sacramento, the Richmond, Calif., […]

August 2, 2000

Community Colleges

We Must Keep Youth Thirsting For Education

We Must Keep Youth Thirsting For EducationRosa M. Jones, the 72-year-old mother of five children, received a Bachelor of Science degree in interdisciplinary studies from Norfolk State University in December 1999. Her accomplishment would have been notable at any age, under any circumstances, since fewer than 15 percent of all African Americans over age 25 […]

July 5, 2000

Black Caucus Loses Bid For Budget Alternative

Black Caucus Loses Bid For Budget AlternativeWASHINGTON — Unhappy with Republican budget plans, Congressional Black Caucus members developed their own spending alternative for next year with generous increases for Black colleges, K-12 education, Head Start and other priorities.While that plan failed to pass a vote on the House floor, caucus members are still hoping to […]

April 26, 2000

ACE Troubleshooter

ACE TroubleshooterWelcome relief and big expectations accompany Dr. William B. Harvey’s appointment as head of the Office of Minorities in Higher EducationWhen the American Council on Education announced the new head of its Office of Minorities in Higher Education last month, observers said they were getting the best of both worlds — a respected scholar […]

April 12, 2000

Caucus, White House Open Education Improvement Effort

Caucus, White House Open Education Improvement EffortWASHINGTON — Congressional Black Caucus leaders and President Clinton joined forces this month on a new package of K-12 education improvements they say will help provide a pipeline for future achievement.The proposal includes funds to turn around low-performing schools and to pay for new school facilities that can accommodate […]

March 29, 2000

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