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Educational Testing Service Provides a Facelift for the GRE

Updated exam, along with the new Personal Potential Index assessment, is expected to help close the achievement gap for minority graduate school applicants.

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Learning Life Lessons from Kemba

In sharing her story of redemption, Kemba Smith Pradia helps the vulnerable stay on track, one college student at a time.

Kemba Smith Pradia

‘Freedom Riders’: The Fight To End Segregation

Filmmaker Stanley Nelson says his new documentary about the courageous activists who defiantly opposed the 1960s segregation of the South may help inspire a new generation of youth.

Wisconsin College’s Teaching Methods Gain Attention

Alverno College, a small women’s college on Milwaukee’s south side, has been widely cited as a national model for training teachers, thanks to its combination of clinical and classroom experience and use of video and other tools to evaluate whether graduates are meeting the standards for what makes a good teacher.

Sharon P. Robinson is president of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, an umbrella group for schools that specialize in training teachers.

Curriculum Reform at UT-Galveston Medical School Yields Improved Minority Student Board Results

The UT Medical Branch at Galveston has developed an approach that faculty members say have had a remarkable effect on its students’ performance on the medical board exam.

Morehouse medical school president Dr. John E. Maupin, Jr.

College President Tackles Student Persistence, Campus Expansion

Helping students persist to graduation at Hispanic-serving New Jersey City University is a priority for Dr. Carlos Hernández.

Keeping Latino Religion Scholars Faithful to the Classroom

The Princeton Theological Seminary’s Hispanic Theological Initiative helps Latino doctoral students launch careers as religion scholars.

Minnesota’s Private Colleges Recruit Diverse Students

For almost the tenth consecutive year the number of minorities enrolled in the 17 four-year, liberal arts schools that belong to the Minnesota Private College Council has increased.

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Garden State Abandons Minority Doctoral Program

New Jersey Legislature defunds the Minority Academic Careers program, making financing doctoral study a heavier burden for minority students.

India Arrests Kashmir Teacher for Exam on Unrest

Students initially thought unexpected exam was a plot by Indian intelligence officers.

Kashmir Street Riots

Adults Blame Parents for Education Problems

Blaming teachers for low test scores, poor graduation rates and the other ills of American schools has been popular lately, but a new survey wags a finger closer to home.

Southern U.S. College Graduation Rates Lag Behind National Average

A nuanced picture of college completion rates in southern U.S. states emerged Tuesday with the release of a study that shows most states trailing the national average—a trend that the report’s authors say could have negative implications for the region’s workforce and its increasingly diverse student population if things don’t improve.

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