PURCHASE TICKETS HERE: http://makeanimpactball.eventbrite.com/# IMPACT Inc and LITM Events request your presence at the Inaugural "Make an IMPACT" Ball. Please join us for an evening of live music and dancing as IMPACT Inc introduces itself to the Philadelphia nonprofit community. "The mi... Read more...
Most low-income students who have top test scores and grades do not even apply to the nation’s best colleges, according to a new analysis of every high school student who took the SAT in a recent year. The pattern contributes to widening economic inequality and low levels of mobility in this coun... Read more...
US Education Secretary Arne Duncan did not dribble around the question when I asked him if collegiate basketball programs with longterm, gross racial disparities in graduation rates should be banned from March Madness. "Where you have insidious gaps, and where there isn't movement, I think there ha... Read more...
An influential group of college presidents, civil rights leaders and advocates sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is highlighting what it calls a growing higher education dropout crisis and seeks to fix it in part by linking financial aid with successful graduation. “Education... Read more...
A Houston high school counselor has sued the Houston Independent School District for firing her, she claims, as retribution for her decision to blow thewhistle on teachers and administrators who were lying in order to increase graduation rates. According to the counselor, this was ... Read more...
Resurrecting a struggling high school is more about changing culture than curriculum, according to Charles Payne, a University of Chicago professor and affiliate of the university’s Urban Education Institute. Schools should be places where teachers are trusted, students are challenged, and pa... Read more...
New York State with 266,933 Black males only graduates 37% from high school in four years versus 78% for White males For African-American and Hispanic male students, New York has the worst four-year high school graduation rate in the country, according to a study by the Schott Foundation fo... Read more...
Faulty equipment, fights in the hallways, overcrowded classrooms, failing grades, security guards, scarce resources and high suspension rates. This is not the description of a school in some Third World war torn country. It is the unfortunate yet glaring reality facing thousands of Black, Latino an... Read more...
Ahead of Thursday’s tipoff of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, a study has found anew that the gap in the graduation rate between white and black players remains wide. The annual report, “Keeping Score When It Counts,” by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports at the Un... Read more...