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Scholars Cite History’s Legacy, Rap Music for Achievement Gap

Dr. Glenn C. Loury is losing sleep over the achievement gap between Blacks and Whites in public schools. But it’s not merely low test scores in the nation’s grammar and middle schools that disturbs him. It is America’s political leaders, who are leaving the job of fixing the nation’s racial disparities to educators alone.

June 25, 2006

African-American

New Book Scouts Spots Where Langston Hughes Spent Youth

New Book Scouts Spots Where Langston Hughes Spent YouthLAWRENCE, Kan.While researching a new book identifying Lawrence locations significant in the life of Langston Hughes, Dr. Denise Low and T.F. Pecore Weso made an interesting discovery. “Every place in Lawrence that Langston Hughes mentioned, or his biographers mentioned, that a racial injustice occurred to him is […]

December 29, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Growing Black Ivy

Growing Black IvyColumbia conference explores Black presence at elite schools By Ronald RoachNEW YORKOne of the many education access struggles waged by African Americans since the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic Brown v. Board decision has proven to be one over Black representation at the eight Ivy League universities. Relating both the Brown legacy and the […]

November 17, 2004

Making The Case For Public Education

Making The Case For Public EducationFounded in 1857 “to elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching and to promote the cause of education in the United States,” the National Education Association has a long history of fighting for the rights of educators across the nation. That type of activism continues […]

January 28, 2004

The Art and Science Of College Admissions

The Art and Science Of College Admissions By Julianne Malveaux President George W. Bush says he thinks the University of Michigan’s affirmative action plan is “divisive” and a “de facto quota system” because it admits students solely on the basis of race. Either President Bush is woefully misinformed or he has chosen to ignore the […]

February 26, 2003

The Art and Science Of College Admissions

The Art and Science Of College Admissions By Julianne Malveaux President George W. Bush says he thinks the University of Michigan’s affirmative action plan is “divisive” and a “de facto quota system” because it admits students solely on the basis of race. Either President Bush is woefully misinformed or he has chosen to ignore the […]

February 12, 2003

African-American

A Timeless Legacy

A Timeless Legacy Celebrating 100 years of W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black FolkBY KENDRA HAMILTON Here’s a little known fact worth savoring on the centennial of the publication of The Souls of Black Folk: Its author, the restlessly brilliant and relentlessly controversial Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, was at Tuskegee University when […]

February 12, 2003

Remembering The Souls

Remembering The Souls It wasn’t difficult coming up with a theme for our annual Black History Month edition. Because the 100th anniversary of the publication of W.E.B. Du Bois’ classic essay collection, The Souls of Black Folk, has generated a groundswell of scholarly activity and upcoming tributes, Black Issues wanted to present readers stories on […]

February 12, 2003

Globalization and Africa

Globalization and AfricaScholars explore impact of language, colonization and supernational organizationsBy Kenyatta Albeny NEW YORKMore than 100 students, activists and scholars gathered recently at Columbia University’s Teachers College to explore the effects of globalization and decentralization on education, health care and land reform in Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda. During the one-day conference “Africa in […]

May 8, 2002

Reparations and Affirmative Action: What You Owe Me

Reparations and Affirmative Action: What You Owe MeVeteran journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault was one of the first two African Americans to attend the University of Georgia in 1961. Hamilton Holmes and Hunter-Gault had their admission to college delayed for two years while the University of Georgia tried to deny them admittance to the college. When they […]

September 26, 2001

Continuing the Legacy, but Looking Ahead to the Future

Continuing the Legacy, but Looking Ahead to the FutureWith a recent decision in the University of Michigan Law School’s admissions case, (Grutter v. Bollinger et. al.), declaring that the use of race as a factor in college admissions is unconstitutional, it seems appropriate that this edition of Black Issues In Higher Education features one of […]

April 11, 2001

Federal Judge Rules That Georgia has No Compelling Interest in Promoting Diversity

Federal Judge Rules That Georgia has No Compelling Interest in Promoting DiversityA federal district judge ruled late last month that three White female applicants denied admission to the University of Georgia in 1999 should be offered admission to the institution this fall, effectively ending the university’s policy of giving special consideration to minority applicants.In his […]

August 16, 2000

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