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Bush’s Education Reform Plan on Hold

Bush’s Education Reform Plan on HoldProcedural delays and uneasiness about plan delay bills’ considerationPresident Bush’s education reform plan — once on Congress’ fast track — is losing steam on Capitol Hill this summer.Some political analysts had expected speedy approval of a final bill once the House of Representatives and the Senate approved their reform blueprints […]

August 1, 2001

Conferences Aim to Outline Battle Plan for Educating, Preparing Black Students

Conferences Aim to Outline Battle Plan for Educating, Preparing Black StudentsBy Robin V. SmilesWASHINGTONAs lawmakers on Capitol Hill debated the final particulars of Bush’s education reform bill, just minutes away at the historically Black Howard University and just outside the Beltway in Reston, Va., education advocates and experts gathered to craft their own battle plan […]

July 4, 2001

Bush’s Education Reform Plan Gains Congressional Support

Bush’s Education Reform Plan Gains Congressional SupportSome proposed changes to education bill from CBC members were rejected Education reform bills gaining ground in Congress may affect virtually all areas of school policy, from K-12 through higher education.The chief vehicle is H.R. 1, a plan from House Republicans and the Bush administration that has attracted support […]

June 20, 2001

High Court Decision Expected to Chill Future Civil Rights Suits

High Court Decision Expected to Chill Future Civil Rights SuitsWASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent reversal of two lower court decisions in a lawsuit challenging a state’s English-only policy is expected to have a chilling effect on other types of civil rights lawsuits, including those aimed at challenging higher education policies that yield a discriminatory […]

May 9, 2001

Regents OK Louisiana’s Minimum Admissions Requirements

Regents OK Louisiana’s Minimum Admissions Requirements BATON ROUGE, La. The first statewide plan to set minimum admissions requirements for students entering Louisiana’s four-year state colleges won final approval last month from the Board of Regents. To be accepted to a four-year college, high school graduates would have to pass the same college preparatory curriculum required […]

April 11, 2001

Valedictorians Suing State of Arkansas

Valedictorians Suing State of ArkansasOnly Four Blacks Among 808 Scholarship RecipientsLITTLE ROCK, Ark. Two high school valedictorians claim in a federal lawsuit that the state of Arkansas is practicing racial discrimination in the way it chooses elite students for scholarships. The lawsuit says only four Black students are among the 808 recipients since 1997 under […]

September 27, 2000

Leadership & Policy

EPA Cracks Down On Campuses to Clean Up

EPA Cracks Down On Campuses to Clean UpLINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Pa.A new kind of SWAT team is surfacing on campuses that can ruin even the toughest college president’s day. The special weapon? Environmental law. The special tactics? Big fines. If the hunt uncovers pollution violations, the price tag can rival the impact of a drug bust, […]

September 13, 2000

Where There is None

Where There is Nonettracting minority students into engineering programs is a challenge. A rural Midwestern school such as the University of Missouri-Rolla has double the difficulty, because it is a challenge to attract minority students, period. At least, that was the issue 10 years ago, when it occurred to university officials that there might be […]

August 16, 2000

ACLU Sues Michigan Over Merit Scholarships

ACLU Sues Michigan Over Merit Scholarships DETROIT — Calling the Michigan Merit Award system an “unconscionable use of public funds,” the American Civil Liberties Union here filed a lawsuit last month asking that the state be ordered to stop using a standardized test as the sole criteria for the scholarship. The ACLU says awarding the […]

July 19, 2000

Retilling The Field

Retilling The FieldHistorically Black land-grant institutions are growing agricultural programs despite a difficult climate.“As my mother used to say: ‘There’s more than one way to get in a house other than going in the front door.’” That piece of wisdom is offered by Dr. James H. Walker Jr., the senior associate research director of the […]

June 7, 2000

ACT Reports Lower Dropout, Graduation Rates

ACT Reports Lower Dropout, Graduation Rates The percentage of freshman college dropouts has declined for the third consecutive year, while the number of students graduating has reached an all-time low, according to a recent report by the American College Testing.Of the students who enrolled in four-year colleges in the fall of 1997, 25.9 percent failed […]

March 29, 2000

Testing the Truth About the SAT

Testing the Truth About the SATThis revised and updated version of David Owen’s 1985 exposé is: a) a balanced and objective analysis of the merits and limitations of the Scholastic Aptitude Test as a college entrance examination; b) a one-sided diatribe that can be easily dismissed; c) a significant extension of the original volume; d) […]

March 15, 2000

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