Black Education

PHILADELPHIA– The choice of undergraduate major in college is strongly tied to a student’s future earnings, with the highest-paying majors providing salaries of about 300 percent more than the lowest-paying, according to a study released Tuesday.

QUEENS, New York– Mabou Loiseau, a five-year-old child prodigy who is home-schooled can speak seven languages, play six instruments, and scored in the 99th percentile on the test for gifted and talented schools in New York City.

NEW YORK– The NAACP criticized the United States in a report recently saying that prison funding is at a higher priority than school funding.

Additional reporting by Karla Ovalle NEW YORK — Black attendees at the National Action Network convention celebrated raucously today when news broke of the resignation of embattled New York City public schools chancellor Cathleen P. Black, to be replaced by Deputy Mayor Dennis M. Walcott, an African-American. “Hallelujah,” screamed a woman who jumped out of […]

NEW YORK — U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan elicited a collective gasp from an audience at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network convention today when he revealed that less than two percent of the nation’s schoolteachers were Black and male. “And we wonder why our boys are struggling,” Duncan said. “We need more Latino […]

AKRON, Ohio — The University of Akron will host its fourth annual Black Male Summit to “bring awareness to critical issues in higher education for young Black men.” ALSO READ: Justin Bieber, Rihanna Team Up For Japan

New York —  With the rising costs of college, here are some of the top 10 myths about saving for college and how you should really save for it. Black Enterprise has provided a list of tips to handle the common myths associated with loans, financial aid, and other aid programs like the 529 college […]

ORLANDO, Fla. — A study released Monday shows growing disparity between graduation rates for white and black players at schools in the men’s NCAA basketball tournament. RELATED: Top 9 Black TV hosts

California — Though the number of public school students taking Advanced Placement tests is at an all-time high, a recent report from the College Board shows that 14 percent of Hispanic and Latino students, and less than four percent of Black students were able to pass in 2010. Huffington Post reports: Only a quarter of […]

Lancaster, Pennsylvania– A high school has defended its decision to segregate students by race and gender. The scheme, at McCaskey East High School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, separates black students from the rest of the school pupils, and then further breaks it down into black females and black males.

ORLANDO– A new study shows the disparity between graduation rates for white and black players at schools headed to bowl games grew again this year even as overall academic progress increased for both.

Washington D.C.– I wanted to cry when I read about the recent widely publicized report from the Council of Great City Schools about the underachievement of African-American males in our schools. Its findings bear repeating: African-American boys drop out at nearly twice the rate of white boys; their SAT scores are on average 104 points […]