HBCU College Guide 2008-2009
Chevrolet and EBONY magazine believe that a sound education is key to the success of today’s youth. That is why they have partnered for the 13th year to offer the 2008-2009 Guide to Historically Black College and Universities.
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Council Members Unhappy With School Modernization Plan
Absence of Rhee And Deputy Mayor Draws Criticism
D.C. Council members gave a cool reception yesterday to Mayor Adrian M. Fenty’s $2.5 billion plan to modernize public schools, calling it vague, incomplete and developed with little participation by District residents.
Council members expressed particular unhappiness that neither Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee nor Deputy Mayor for [...]
Howard University is a haven for crime
Howard University is a haven for crime. With at least a dozen Howard University students getting jacked on campus in the past month and two others getting raped, the school’s police department wants everybody to carry the dispatch number and keep their cell phones at the ready.
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America’s healthiest schools ranked
The average American child spends nearly 12,000 hours in school, from kindergarten through 12th grade. That’s a big chunk of time during which he or she can develop good (or bad) health habits.
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Mismatched Minorities?
Addressing the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Friday, a panel of researchers discussed whether minority students are doomed to failure if admitted into highly selective science programs on the basis of racial preferences.
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Community organizing can span ‘the ideological spectrum’
“Community organizer.”
The term has been bounced around at both parties’ political conventions, beginning at the Democratic National Convention, when Barack Obama’s wife, Michelle, lauded the candidate’s stint as an organizer in Chicago
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Clarence Thomas, Champion of Black Colleges
When Clarence Thomas’s name comes up in conversation among black educators, the response isn’t usually positive. Yet on Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court justice received a warm welcome from a gathering of appreciative leaders — many of whom were presidents of historically black colleges and universities.
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Obama talks tough on education
Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday detailed his plan to strengthen the education system and charged that the Bush administration’s “failure to act has put our nation in jeopardy.”
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Attacking the ‘Mismatch’ Critique of Affirmative Action
One of the more influential and controversial studies of affirmative action in recent years came from Richard H. Sander in 2004. The law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles analyzed statistics about black law students and argued that they show that affirmative action hurts them by helping many gain admission to institutions [...]
Who Produces Black Ph.D.’s?
Black students have their choice of college in a way that was not nearly as true decades ago, a fact borne out by the numbers: In 2006, one in five African American bachelor’s degree recipients earned their diplomas from historically black colleges and universities, compared to well over a third in 1977.
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