Black IssuesHealthLeaders Urge Schools to Address ‘Culture of Detachment’ Among StudentsLeaders Urge Schools to Address ‘Culture of Detachment’ Among StudentsBALTIMORECiting a vast body of empirical evidence, leaders in education and public health policy are calling on the nation’s schools to strengthen their connections with students, outlining a multi-pronged strategy aimed at boosting academic performance while reducing drug and alcohol use, suicide, violence, smoking and sex […]September 22, 2004Leadership & PolicyMinority Test Takers Make Significant Gains on SATMinority Test Takers Make Significant Gains on SATBut achievement gap between White, minority students persists By Cassie ChewWASHINGTONAmong the record 1.4 million college-bound students in the class of 2004 who took the SAT, another record number of these SAT takers, 37 percent, were minority students, the College Board said in its annual report of SAT […]September 22, 2004StudentsStudent Loan Groups Bilk Billions Out of U.S. GovernmentStudent Loan Groups Bilk Billions Out of U.S. GovernmentBy M.H. MillerWhen U.S. Secretary of Education Roderick Paige in 2001 promised to cut down on government waste at the Education Department, it probably didn’t occur to most people that some of that “waste” would continue to trickle down to banks that offer student loans. With the […]September 22, 2004Community CollegesBush Offers Glimpse of a Second-Term Education AgendaBush Offers Glimpse of a Second-Term Education AgendaBy Charles DervaricsPresident Bush in early September outlined a second-term education agenda that includes more Pell Grant support for low-income students, new funds for community colleges and a collection of other proposals designed to spur K-12 reform and college access.“In this time of change, most new jobs are […]September 22, 2004HomeRallying Around EducationRallying Around EducationThe headline, “Minority Test Takers Make Significant Gains on SAT” sounds like pretty positive news. And it is, kind of. However, a closer look at the numbers reveals that African Americans still score the lowest on the standardized test among all racial and ethnic groups. Barely seeing their scores rise from year to […]September 22, 2004HomeFailing Our Black ChildrenFailing Our Black ChildrenThis year marks the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, which theoretically ended school segregation in America. But many schools are as segregated today as they were before the ruling, and Black children throughout the United States are performing at the bottom of the American educational system. The nation’s capital, […]September 22, 2004Leadership & PolicyAn Insider Moves Front & CenterAn Insider Moves Front & CenterBy Ronald RoachLezli Baskerville is no stranger to the ways of Washington. As the fifth president and the first woman to head the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO), Baskerville brings more than two decades of Washington-based advocacy and legal experience to the task of representing the […]September 8, 2004Leadership & PolicyBreaking Down the WallsBreaking Down the WallsN o one was surprised when Dr. Marcus Cox’s Ph.D. in history from Northwestern led to job offers from Ohio State and Illinois State universities. But it came as quite a surprise to his friends when Cox passed on those schools to go to The Citadel — a small Southern military college […]September 8, 2004HomeProfessional Appointments© Copyright 2005 by DiverseEducation.comSeptember 8, 2004African-AmericanEventsSEPTEMBERSept. 20-22National College Access Network 8th Annual ConferenceBostonWeb: www.collegeaccess.org/NCAN/Sept. 22-25Furious Flower Conference“Furious Flower: Regenerating the Black Poetic Tradition”James Madison UniversityHarrisonburg, Va.Phone: (540) 568-2694E-mail: furiousflower.@jmu.eduWeb: www.jmu.edu/furiousflowerSept. 23-2520th Annual Symposium on African American Studies“African American Studies: Meeting the Challenge Today: Learning from the Past — Envisioning the Future”Purdue University West Lafayette, Ind.Phone: (765) 494-5680Web: www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/idis/african-american/Sept. 24-272004 Patterson […]September 8, 2004Previous PagePage 47 of 431Next Page
