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Faculty & Staff

Ebonics IQI. What have we learned ? – use of Ebonics language to teach African American children – Cover Story

The Ebonics controversy in Oakland, California, took many people by surprise. Most had never heard of Ebonics before December 18, 1996, and once they did, few understood what the school district meant when it expressed its intent to use this new “language” to teach the district’s African American children.

July 4, 2007

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Math, science teachers expected in demand

FARGO N.D. Some North Dakota schools have had teaching positions open since March with no applicants, a state licensing official says.

June 24, 2007

Students

If You Can Walk, You Can Dance; If You Can Talk, You Can Sing: A Successful African American Doctoral Fellowship Program. – book reviews

Time out, higher education. This book has a proven model for increasing the pool of African Americans with doctorate degrees in non-traditional courses of study. With valuable resource information, this book has special importance for the administrators of traditionally white colleges and universities who are sincerely interested in providing a positive campus climate for African-American students to experience success in doctoral programs.

June 22, 2007

Students

Spelman mission was not impossible: how college’s fund-raising drive netted $113 million

Atlanta – When the totals were in, Spelman College had not only met its “mission impossible” goal of raising $81 million, it had outdone itself — amassing a record $113.3 million.

June 22, 2007

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A case for higher academic standards

A recent University of Chicago study found that only 42 percent of eighth-graders from low-income families expect to earn college degrees, compared with 89 percent of their wealthier Counterparts.

June 22, 2007

Students

Just the Stats: How Effective Are STEM Pipeline Programs?

Bridging the racial gap in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the so-called STEM fields, has become a priority for two organizations: the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation and the Model Institutions for Excellence.

June 20, 2007

LGBTQ+

Educating a New Majority: Transforming America’s Educational System for Diversity. – book reviews

Supreme Court Justice Antonio Scalia described the debate on the Colorado gay rights case as part of a “kulturkampf,” a German word meaning culture war.

June 20, 2007

LGBTQ+

Educating a New Majority: Transforming America’s Educational System for Diversity. – book reviews

Supreme Court Justice Antonio Scalia described the debate on the Colorado gay rights case as part of a “kulturkampf,” a German word meaning culture war. The term dates to the 1870s when Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck used the concept to eradicate Catholic influence in German society, using “government to enforce ideas of a German identity; a German way of thinking, a German culture, a more German Germany.”

June 20, 2007

Faculty & Staff

An equation for equity – Maryland’s Prince George’s County – includes related article on Equity 2000

Maryland teenager Tiffanee Snow has been studying algebra since she began attending Forestville High School last fall. At first, she couldn’t stand algebra. Now, she’s making As. Snow credits the innovative teaching style of her math teacher for her success. She especially likes the team approach to classwork.

June 16, 2007

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Faculty Life 101: a survival guide – Recruitment & Retention: The Last Word

Three years ago, we joined the ranks of academe. Diplomas in hand, fresh out of graduate school, we held illusions of a life full of professional growth and intellectual challenges. Little did we realize that the challenges we would face would have little to do with our intellectual abilities. Rather, the challenges would have more to do with developing survival techniques in order to negotiate the perilous currents against which we had to navigate as new Black faculty at a white institution.

June 15, 2007

Students

2004: Maryland’s reform odyssey – educational reform – includes related article – Recruitment & retention

BALTIMORE, MD When states first began requiring students to meet minimum course requirements and pass competency tests before graduating high school, some educators worried that the new standards would cause students — especially minority and disadvantaged students — to fail at higher rates and drop out more often than was already the case.

June 15, 2007

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Documenting American Indian Success

AIHEC says it has all the data federal officials need to determine that tribal colleges are grant-worthy.

May 2, 2007