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New GED Chief Faces Sagging Testing Rates Despite High Minority Dropout Numbers

Widely recognized as the equivalent to a high school diploma, the General Educational Development test…

Community Colleges

Class, Race Factor in Counselors’ College Recommendations

High-school guidance counselors advise middle-class Black students without a strong academic record to apply to community colleges more than middle-class White students with the same academic record, concludes a new study.

Leadership & Policy

Schools Juggle Holidays For Muslims, Other Faiths

Sikh, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Hindu and Christian — each faith has its holy days. Schools across the country are asking how to respect them all.

UW-Madison Will Allow Controversial Instructor to Teach

An instructor at the University of Wisconsin who has said he believes U.S. officials orchestrated the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, will be allowed to teach a course on Islam, the school said last week.

Leadership & Policy

“Wow!”

I just want to thank God for having this wonderful article on my great school. I love where Wilberforce…

“Wow!”

Wow! I could not think of any other way to title my comment, but wow! While reading this phenomenal piece…

NCCU Goes on Offense: We’re Not a “Poor Cousin” to Duke

In its coverage of the Duke University men’s lacrosse rape story, the media for months have contrasted the elite…

Faculty & Staff

Franklin Symposium: Black Achievement Suffers

In this city, now unfortunately infamous for an elite university’s lacrosse team party that may have gotten out of hand…

Grants & Awards

Southern University’s (La.) Center for Social Research has been awarded a $350,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to help fund the Universities Rebuilding America Partnership. The two-year program assists low- to moderate-income residents of the Baton Rouge and New Orleans corridor. The center will provide technical training, assist small and […]

Black Colleges Must Tap Alumni Support

Memphis’ Lemoyne-Owen College, which faces a debt of $6 million, is the most recent example

Perspectives: The Supreme Court, Race and Education

Racial inequality in education — not affirmative action — should be the major theme of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear two cases regarding the use of race in the assignment of students in public schools.

Community College Transfers Shut Out of Elite Colleges

The doors of the nation’s most selective four-year colleges and universities have begun closing in the faces of aspiring low-income transfer students from community colleges over the last two decades, a new study suggests.

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