Graduating high school students often use yearbook quotes to leave a poignant message or some clever quip. However, one student’s nerdy joke apparently offended administrators…
There’s a growing racial gap between students and their teachers. On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education…
With Black unemployment reaching historic levels, banks laying off tens of thousands and law school graduates waiting tables, why aren’t more African-Americans looking toward science, technology, engineering and math – the still-hiring careers known as STEM. The answer turns out to be a complex equation of self-doubt, stereotypes, discouragement and economics – and sometimes just […]
As news unravels around the grand jury report revealing charges against former Penn State football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky for raping and sexually molesting underage boys, some former black Penn State students are now painfully reliving a scandal that occurred at their university ten years ago. In 2000, the year a janitor witnessed a boy […]
When black students leave college with a bachelor’s degree, more of them also are leaving with debt greater than their white peers. Find out more inside.
via:blackamericaweb.com The American Council on Education last week released its “Annual Status Report on Minorities in Higher Education,” and it showed some disturbing trends when it comes to black males on the nation’s college campuses: Their populations are not only declining, but they have the lowest graduation rate of any other group. According to the […]
