University of Missouri Protests

The situation that continues to unfold on the campus of the University of Missouri has intensified, with calls for violence against Black students and the arrest of a pair of suspects accused of issuing online threats. Since Mizzou President Tim Wolfe‘s resignation on Monday, a series of racist and hate-fueled acts have reached the media. Although […]

According to reports, the U.S. high school dropout rate has significantly plunged over the past few years. In 2008, there were 1 million dropouts and in 2012, that number dropped to 750,000. Over the course of that time period, schools that were dubbed “dropout factories” for having low graduation rates and a small number of […]