Tag: Testing: Page 8

Students

Demystifying the Process

Twenty-four faculty members representing more than 20 historically Black colleges and universities gathered recently…

March 7, 2007

Community Colleges

Dreams Deferred?

Wrongly imprisoned, Alan Newton advises students in CUNY’s Black Male Initiative. So why is a civil rights group trying to stop him?

February 21, 2007

Home

Regaining a Lost Heritage

Can a simple procedure unlock African-Americans’ genetic history? Or is DNA tracing just an expensive waste of time?

February 14, 2007

Home

Regaining a Lost Heritage

This year’s Black History Month program at my friend’s Washington, D.C. church won’t just feature kids reading about famous firsts and courageous equality fighters…

February 7, 2007

Home

ETS Issues Warning to American Middle Class

WASHINGTON, D.C. Inadequate literary skills, the evolving economy and the ongoing shift in the nation’s demographic profile have converged to form a “perfect storm” that could spell doom for the American middle class, says a new report released by the Educational Testing Service Monday.

February 5, 2007

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Despite Modest Increase, GED Test-Taking Still Hovering Near All-Time Low

Given recent statistics that indicate that at least half of all Black and Hispanic high school students dropped out this year, the General Educational Development test, or GED, remains a critical second option. However, since 2002, when the test was revamped to address complaints that GED-holders lacked basic writing skills, the number of test-takers has fallen drastically, from 800,000 before 2002 to 665,927 in 2004.

December 20, 2006

Health

The Face of AIDS: Overwhelmingly Black and Female

More than two decades after HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, first began killing gay White men…

September 20, 2006

HBCUs

Before You EXIT

Dr. Walter M. Kimbrough knows he’s in the minority on the issue of testing…

August 23, 2006

Students

New GED Chief Faces Sagging Testing Rates Despite High Minority Dropout Numbers

Widely recognized as the equivalent to a high school diploma, the General Educational Development test…

July 25, 2006

Home

Higher Education Commission Struggles

After several months of public hearings and a two-day meeting in Washington, D.C., the federal Commission…

June 14, 2006

STEM

Higher Ed. Reform Commission Closing In On Final Recommendations

More federal financial aid for needy students should accompany any comprehensive plan to improve the nation’s post-secondary system, many members of the federal Commission on the Future of Higher Education said late last week.

May 21, 2006

Native Americans

Chippewa Tribe Seeks to Curb Drug Epidemic By Testing at North Dakota Community College

Officials of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa are taking steps to address what they say is an epidemic drug problem on the northern North Dakota reservation…

April 23, 2006