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Obama’s Education Law Overhaul To Focus on College

The Obama administration unveiled its plan Saturday to radically change his predecessor’s No Child Left Behind education law in hopes of replacing an accountability system that in the last decade has tagged more than a third of U.S. schools as failing and created a hodgepodge of sometimes weak academic standards among states.

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Temple University Benefactor Donates Harriet Tubman Items to Smithsonian

Tourists will be able to see some rare, personal belongings of famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman when an African-American history museum opens on the National Mall. This week, historian Charles L. Blockson donated about 40 objects from Tubman’s life to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

From left, Lonnie Bunch, African American History Museum director; Rep. Robert A. Brady (D-Pa.); and donor Charles L. Blockson

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Obama Proposal Seeks to Consolidate Minority Undergraduate STEM Programs

Weighing a new approach for assisting minority college students in the sciences, the Obama administration has proposed the National Science Foundation consolidate major initiatives that target specific racial and ethnic groups for participation in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines into a single program.

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Minority Births on Track to Outnumber White Births

Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years.

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Preserving a Native Language and Culture

With the Myaamia Project at Miami University, the Miami Tribe seeks to rediscover its language and culture.

Myaamia Project Director Daryl Baldwin

Faculty & Staff

Virginia HBCUs Struggle With Legal Opinion That Bars Protection for Gays

Virginia’s historically Black colleges and universities are reeling after a controversial legal opinion by Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli that would invalidate any policy erected by public colleges that bans discrimination against gays and lesbians.

Kenneth Cuccinelli

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First Lady to Deliver HBCU Commencement Address

First lady Michelle Obama will be the featured graduation speaker at three commencement ceremonies this spring, including the graduation at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, a historically Black institution.

Reviews: Catching Up on the Black History Book Bounty

Biographies of the legendary basketball coach Nolan Richardson and the late jazz singer Nina Simone were among the volumes released during the publishing industry’s February push to launch books documenting the Black experience in America.

Nolan Richardson

Leadership & Policy

Women Leaders Honored at ACE Meeting

The American Council on Education honored Dr. Blenda Wilson, former president of California State University, Northridge, with the Donna Shavlik award Saturday, at the Women’s Leadership Dinner during ACE’s 92nd Annual Meeting being held through Tuesday in Phoenix.

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Sarah Lawrence College Hosts Women’s History Conference on Hip-hop

Noting that most popular music is misogynistic, Dr. María Cristina Santana, interim director of women’s studies at the University of Central Florida, began her talk on women and rap by posting the question, “How do we find respect in popular music?”

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Ohio Institutions Focus on Black Male Achievement

Ohio-based schools and organizations have developed education initiatives aimed at helping African-American male students succeed.

The Gathering of Men, a program featured at the Todd Anthony Bell National Resource Center for the African American Male

Leadership & Policy

Tavis Smiley, Chicago State University Preparing to Host Black Agenda Meeting

Two months after ending his annual State of the Black Union conference, Tavis Smiley is gathering African-American advocates to press the case for a “Black agenda.”

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