The new Wake N.C. State STEM Early College is not slated to open until August 2011 but the recruiting process is under way for students interested in science, technology, engineering and math.
The social net for high school dropouts is gone forever. When the manufacturing base in the U.S. was strong, a young man could drop out of high school and safely land at a factory with an $18 an hour job. Today, young African American males are dropping out of high school at the highest rate […]
From CBSNews.com: (CBS) President Obama delivered the commencement address today at Virginia’s Hampton University – his first as president to a predominantly African-American school.
Durham public school officials held a special work session Monday ahead of a court hearing surrounding their repeatedly low-performing schools.
Governor Perdue’s budget plan includes spending cuts in most state agencies except for education.Â
ATLANTA – For parents and politicians hungry for better schools, the idea of paying teachers more if their students perform better can seem as basic as adding two and two or spelling “cat.”
From Black America Web: U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is on a mission: He wants to tour several historically black colleges and speak directly with African-American male students about teaching in the nation’s public schools.
While law schools added about 3,000 seats for first-year students from 1993 to 2008, both the percentage and the number of black and Mexican-American law students declined in that period
