Education, the Great Equalizer
March 21st, 2013
Written by Phillip Elliott - Associated Press in Education, the Great Equalizer, Race Relations with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) - Teachers say they are grouping students of similar abilities with each other inside classrooms and schools are clustering pupils with like interests together - a practice once frowned upon - according to a review of federal education surveys.
The Brookings Institution report released Monday shows a dramatic increase in both ability grouping and student tracking among fourth- and...
March 20th, 2013
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The 64 schools in the women's NCAA basketball tournament combined to graduate 90 percent of their players.
The findings are part of the annual report released Tuesday by the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport.
The study also shows the gap between graduation rates of white and African-American players shrunk to 6 percentage points....
March 19th, 2013
Written by David Brandt - AP Sports Writer in Education, the Great Equalizer, Latest News with 0 Comments
Overall graduation rates improved among players at schools in this year's men's NCAA basketball tournament, and African-American players in particular did better, according to a study released Monday.
The annual report by the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) shows African-American players' graduation success rates increased from 59 percent in...
March 7th, 2013
Written by Brock Vergakis - Associated Press in Education, the Great Equalizer, Latest News with 0 Comments
ATLANTA (AP) - Ariadne Partlow dreamed of graduating Spelman College and moving on to medical school, but instead of studying biology this semester, she worked at a fast-food Chinese restaurant.
The Jackson, Tenn., native was among thousands of students who unexpectedly either had to stay at home, transfer to a less expensive school or find new money when the U.S. Department of Education quietly...
February 25th, 2013
Written by Laura Tillman - Associated Press in Education, the Great Equalizer, Latest News with 0 Comments
Two Mississippi colleges, Jackson State University, which is predominantly black and Millsaps College predominately white hosted conversations on race. The conversations were organized by Treshika Melvin, a senior psychology student at Millsaps College.
Last summer, Treshika Melvin read an essay that had her contacting everyone she knew. It was titled, "How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in...
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