Posts tagged with College

Black History Presents – Daily knowledge: John Henrik Clarke (Day 20)

0 comments, 20/02/2012, by Mr. Blair in African-American Awareness, Black People, Blair History Month, General, my people

John Henrik Clarke John Henry Clarke was a Pan-Africanist American writer, historian, professor, and a pioneer in the creation of Africana studies and professional institutions in academia starting in the late 1960s. He was Professor of African World History and in 1969 founding chairman of t... Read more...

Bianca Raquel – The F*ck It Song [Video]

0 comments, 14/02/2012, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Music Video, Video

"Bianca Raquel is a Vessel of Creativity: A singer/songwriter/producer/performer and student at Berklee College of Music"... and besides her being intelligent & talented, she is also a BEAUTIFUL natural queen (Anyone who knows me knows how I feel about natural women... hate all you want ... Read more...

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African Children’s Book Fair Returns to the CCP Tomorrow Feb 3rd

0 comments, 03/02/2012, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in African-American Awareness, Black People, Blair History Month, Books/Magazine, Do The Knowledge, E-Book, Edu-tainment

LIBRARIES MAY seem obsolete when compared with digital media but there are still many who believe that giving a child a real book can make a difference in his life. Of those people, Vanesse Lloyd-Sgambati stands proudly as the founder of a once small book fair that is celebrating its 20th yea... Read more...

The Racial Gap in College Student Graduation Rates

0 comments, 01/02/2012, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News

The National Collegiate Athletic Association recently released graduation rate data for all students and also for student athletes at its Division I institutions. The data shows that 43 percent of all black students who matriculated at these colleges and universities in the fall of 2004 earned th... Read more...

African American Male Teacher Shortage & Programs Fixing The Problem

6 comments, 17/01/2012, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Edu-tainment

It's a nationwide problem, the shortage of black male teachers. Only two-percent of the nation's nearly five million teachers are African American. Twenty-eight-year-old Craig King has taught third grade at Whittaker Elementary School for six years. His students say there's never a dull moment in M... Read more...

ACT Takers Make Marginal Gains in College Readiness, but Achievement Gaps Remain

7 comments, 12/01/2012, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News

The number of high-school graduates who took the ACT and met all four of its college-readiness benchmarks has risen for the third year in a row, with the ACT also testing its largest class ever this year. Twenty-five percent of the class of 2011 met the ACT College Readiness Benchmarks in... Read more...

Joy In Education

1 comment, 06/12/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, program

The failure of the market place view of education should be evident to everyone. In a little publicized announcement the College Board said that SAT scores fell across the nation. The average writing, reading and math scores all dropped. Only 43% of all test takers achieved a score that indicated th... Read more...

Higher Math in High School Means Higher Earnings Later

2 comments, 30/11/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Edu-tainment, News, program

There is a well-established correlation between years of schooling and labor market success. However, it stands to reason that it is not just years of education that affect future earnings. The curriculum-the kinds of courses a student takes-certainly must have an effect. For example, it seems rea... Read more...

Three of Four State Grads Not Ready for College, ACT Scores Show

0 comments, 28/10/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, program, World News

More than three-quarters of Illinois high school graduates aren't completely ready for college, based on their ACT scores, state results of the college-admission test released Wednesday show. Only 23 percent of Illinois' 2011 high school graduating class - public and private - met college readine... Read more...