Black Students

The recent education reforms to No Child Left Behind proposed by the Obama Administration sadly perpetuate a flawed testing policy that will continue to leave our children behind.

In a country where minority students are already disproportionately shut out of higher education, is saving a few government dollars really worth endangering opportunities for a generally disadvantaged population? Florida seems to think it is.

From WashingtonPost.com: Legislation hailed by supporters as the most significant change to college student lending in a generation passed the House on Sunday night.

From TheLoop21.com: The Texas Board of Education has made a series of history revising moves to its curriculum, altering how the Civil Rights Movement is taught among a host of other things.

ORLANDO, Fla. – The disparity in graduation rates for white and black players on NCAA tournament-bound men’s basketball teams grew this year, according to a study released Monday.

From Newsweek: Barry Mills, the president of Bowdoin College, was justifiably proud of Bowdoin’s efforts to recruit minority students. Since 2003 the small, elite liberal-arts school in Brunswick, Maine, has boosted the proportion of so-called underrepresented minority students (blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans, about 30 percent of the U.S. population) in entering freshman classes from […]

NELSONVILLE, Ohio — Officials at Hocking College in the U.S., a campus carved into a forest in the Appalachian foothills, say they are taking seriously a threat scrawled on a bathroom wall warning that black students would be killed Feb. 2.