188 Search results for "graduation"

Live out the stereotype at HBCU’s Tenai Staley, The A & T Register, August 29, 2010 Closing the Racial Achievement Gap: It’s Time to Look Beyond the Classroom Sian Beilock, Psychology Today, August 27, 2010 Stop youth violence cycle David J. Harding, Free Press, August 26, 2010 Local ministry working to eradicate youth violence Mario Boone, Volunteer TV News, […]

Live out the stereotype at HBCU’s Tenai Staley, The A & T Register, August 29, 2010 Closing the Racial Achievement Gap: It’s Time to Look Beyond the Classroom Sian Beilock, Psychology Today, August 27, 2010 Stop youth violence cycle David J. Harding, Free Press, August 26, 2010 Local ministry working to eradicate youth violence Mario Boone, Volunteer TV News, […]

Study: Black males graduating at lower rates Matt Hanley, Geneva Sun, August 22, 2010 As some achievement gaps on TAKS shrink, others widen Holly K. Hacker, The Dallas Morning News, August 22, 2010 Artist cultivates for neighborhood, kids Dawn Turner Trice, Chicago Tribune, August 22, 2010 Doctors Tell Hollywood to Stop Luring Youth Into Smoking Joan Delaney, Epoch Times, […]

One of the first memories I have of my first year in college is Jell-O wrestling.  I have absolutely no idea how, on the last Saturday night before classes started, my new roommates and I — perhaps on our way to some black(er?) social event — ended up amongst a crowd of fellow co-eds, standing […]

The Lost Generation Annie Lowrey, Washington Independent, August 12, 2010 Youth program creating peace in Akron Stephanie Kist, West Side Leader, August 12, 2010 Study finds girls reaching puberty earlier in the US Robyn Kurth, Examiner, August 11, 2010 The Crisis of Black Youth Dr. Selwyn Cudjoe, Trinicenter, August 11, 2010 Youth learn skills in 4-H classes News Courier, Staff […]

Diversity Debate Convulses Elite High School Sharon Otterman, New York Times | August 4, 2010 With one of its alumnae, Elena Kagan, poised for confirmation as a justice on the United States Supreme Court, it should be a triumphant season for Hunter College High School, a New York City public school for the intellectually gifted.But […]

And to think blacks spend all this money on big colleges, still most of y’all come out confused. – Arrested Development A few weeks ago, N’s daughter, E came into the living room, and asked us if she’d be “ruining [her] life” by traveling for a few years after high school before she went to […]

Montgomery schools track graduates’ rate of college degrees Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, May 18, 2010 Montgomery public schools, one of the few systems in the country that tracks its students all the way through college graduation, released a report Monday that details how many of its students went on to receive bachelor’s degrees — and […]

Closing the Educational Divide Matthew Mcgowan, Avalanche-Journal, April 18, 2010 Troubled youths succeed, alcohol awareness, Milton High goes back to the ’80s Carmen Paige, Pensacola News Journal, April 17, 2010 Kansas Wildscape Hires New Youth Programs Coordinator Staff Writer, Kansas City InfoZine, April 17, 2010 Anti-violence group’s work on hold Justin Fenton, The Baltimore Sun, […]

Summit opens dialogue with teens Elizabeth M. Mack, Tallahassee Democrat, March 21, 2010 St. Cloud looks at race disparity suspension gap in schools Dave Aeikens, SC Times, March 21, 2010 Engaging Seattle’s youth and families Times Staff Writer, Seattle Times, March 21, 2010 Battle of the Youth Bulge Addison Wiggin, Daily Reckoning, March 21, 2010 Minimum wage hikes harm […]

First and foremost I would like to apologize to my neighbors in my dormitory. At any given time you may have heard a loud “brrrrr” and wondered what it was. No, it was not me complaining about the brutal Chicago cold (it has actually been a temperate winter). More importantly, we have central heating. You […]

“It’s all about the U”. Growing up in South Florida I heard this chant all the time, especially between the months of August and January. For those of you who don’t speak “college football”, the “U” is a reference to the University of Miami. During the late 80’s, early 90’s, and early 2000’s they were […]