Black College Is Back in Business, For Now
Historically Black Morris Brown College is back in business after paying $100,000 toward its water bill to the city of Atlanta.
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Frenemies on Facebook
Send off the application.
Buy the T-shirt.
Such is the process — not necessarily in that order — for many college-bound high school seniors. So it’s perhaps no surprise that admissions officials and students alike felt betrayed when they learned dozens of Facebook groups devoted to the “Class of 2013” at various colleges appeared to have been [...]
J. Edgar Hoover - Government Gang Leader?
Since we first began working on “American Gangster,” the idea of profiling J. Edgar Hoover has been floating around. Using the levers of official power, Hoover made the Federal Bureau of Investigation his personal gang, particularly in pursuing an agenda of White supremacy that began with his role in the deportation of Marcus Garvey, through [...]
5 Hurt in High School Melee
A melee yesterday at a Southeast Washington high school left five students injured, including three with stab wounds, on a day when police, parents, teachers and city officials held a series of meetings to discuss ways of curbing youth violence.
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Take a Chance on Rhee?
LL has his e-mail set up so that every time someone on the Web writes about certain local public officials, he gets an alert in his inbox. With the possible exception of countless updates he gets on a pro wrestler named Jack Evans, he gets the most alerts for Chancellor Michelle Rhee.
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Can Obama Help Rhee?
A principal recently was defending a teacher whom D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee had observed in the classroom and found wanting.
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Obama on Higher Ed
Many higher education leaders had hoped to see college issues, or education generally, emerge as a major issue in the 2008 race. That never quite happened. And with the war in Iraq and the collapse of the economy, that may not be surprising. But over the course of two years leading up to his election, [...]
Fixing the Freshman Factor - Pr. George’s Schools Focus on 9th Grade, Which 1 in 4 Kids Flunked Last Year
The ninth-grader slouched in the chair one fall day, avoiding the principal’s glare. He had the body of a boy, but he was deciding right there what kind of man he would be.
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Colleges as ‘Failure Factories’
The reality that only about 7 in 10 students earn degrees after four years in high school has been widely deplored, and it helped drive the Bush administration and Congress to embrace the No Child Left Behind law earlier this decade. But if that situation is seen as such a crisis, why aren’t more people [...]
Why More Colleges Want Jewish Students
At Chicagoland Jewish High School, “What I’m seeing is, new names are popping up all the time,” says Bruce Scher, the academic dean and director of college counseling.
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