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Univision Calls Latinos to Action with “Educate Yourself, the Moment Is Now” Campaign
On Oct. 16, Univision Networks kicked off, “EdĂșcate, Es el Momento” (Educate Yourself, The Moment Is Now), a seven-day multiplatform initiative to promote Hispanic educational attainment.
October 20, 2011
Students
Report: Community College Student Attrition Poses High Cost for Taxpayers
Vast sums of taxpayer dollars are being wasted at community colleges due to the large numbers of students who drop out during their first year and never return, an education researcher argues in a new report released today.
October 19, 2011
Students
Student Progress Can Be Tied to Teacher’s School
Washington state schools are among the first to see which teacher training programs seem to result in the best student test scores, but 35 states now have the means to do similar research, according to the Data Quality Campaign, a national organization formed by education and business groups to track state progress on collecting data about students and schools.
October 16, 2011
Students
The STEM Issue Branches Out to the Funny Pages
So, with all of the strength that a child can muster, Gracie — a Hispanic little girl — charged into the STEM arena. In the July 18 Baldo comic strip, which was carried by 200 newspapers, she matter-of-factly mentioned to Tia Carmen that she would focus on a “STEM area of study” when she went to college.
October 16, 2011
Students
Thousands Gather at National Mall to Dedicate Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
President Obama said the MLK memorial is not just a monument to pay tribute to Dr. King as an individual, but to all of the people, including the unsung heroes, who comprised the civil rights movement that Dr. King led.
October 16, 2011
Students
Most Colleges Not Ready To Ask About LGBT Status
Advocates say that, besides being a recruiting tool to help diversify campuses, openly assessing a school’s LGBT population would make colleges more aware of needs such as finding tolerant roommates.
October 13, 2011
Students
Commentary: Derrick Bell’s ‘Working Faith’ for Academic Justice
When Derrick Bell passed away last week, the academy and the world did not merely lose a prodigious scholar, an exquisite legal mind and a magnetic personality.
October 12, 2011
Students
NY Police Department Infiltration of Colleges Raises Privacy Fears
Investigators have been infiltrating Muslim student groups at Brooklyn College and other schools in the city, monitoring their Internet activity and placing undercover agents in their ranks, police documents obtained by The Associated Press show.
October 11, 2011
Students
Texas University Breaking Ties With Community College
University of Texas at Brownsville to part ways with Texas Southmost College, ending unusual 20-year partnership.
October 10, 2011
Students
‘New Orleans in the Hamptons’ Raises College Scholarship Funds
Foundation fundraiser hosted by Soledad O’Brien and husband Brad Raymond brought movers and shakers together to lend a hand to college students.
October 10, 2011
Students
U.S.-Mexico Border Journalism Project Continues To Train Hispanics in Writing and Reporting
Borderzine is approaching its fifth anniversary with much to celebrate about its efforts to train aspiring Hispanic journalists using the populations on both sides of the nation’s 2,000-mile border with Mexico as its practical classroom.
October 9, 2011
Students
Pioneering Law Professor Derrick Bell Dies
Derrick Bell, the first Black professor at Harvard Law School and an uncompromising advocate for social justice, has died at age 80.
October 6, 2011
Students
Boston Students Protest Spiraling Education Costs
About 200 Northeastern University students gathered on Wednesday to condemn what they called corporate control of government and the spiraling costs of their education.
October 5, 2011
Students
Keeping Day-to-Day Problems from Derailing College Students
Ugandan immigrant Job Asiimwe was on the verge of becoming one of the surprisingly large number of American college and university students who fail to earn two-year associate degrees within even three years, or four-year bachelor’s degrees within six.
October 5, 2011
Students
Vermont Law, Long a Holdout, Lifting Military Ban
The policy barring military recruiters dated from the mid-1980s, years before the Clinton administration adopted the policy that became known as “don’t ask, don’t tell” in 1993.
October 4, 2011
Students
Arkansas Scholar’s Learning Project Helps Boost Academic Performance of Elementary, Middle School Students
Hendrix College historian and education professor James Jennings launched achievement gap initiative in elementary schools and middle schools in Arkansas’ Mississippi river delta region to narrow learning gap for children living in the state’s poorest counties.
October 4, 2011
Students
Education Secretary Arne Duncan Unveils Proposal Giving Responsibility to States to Identify Weak Teacher-Preparation Programs
The proposal also calls for using a $185 million state teacher preparation grant to reform the $110 million TEACH grant program.
October 2, 2011
Students
N.Y. Prosecutor: Better SAT Exam Security is Needed
The administrators of college entrance exams should make immediate security changes to stop cheating, said the prosecutor who has accused a college student of using a fake ID to take exams for six of his buddies, one of them a girl.
September 29, 2011
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