Many Black Americans not over real estate crash Photo credit: Bloomberg News | The windows of a house are boarded-up with plywood in the Roseland neighborhood of Chicago, Ill. Almost one in 10 Roseland properties is vacant and the area's home ownership rate fell to 57 percent in 2010 from 64 pe... 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...
Robert Downs has attended Norfolk Public Schools since kindergarten, but it wasn't until fifth grade that his mother learned of the division's program for gifted students. "If it hadn't been for one of my friends who's a teacher, I would have never known," Jamila Downs said. Downs followed up w... Read more...
The District’s Ben W. Murch Elementary School found the cash to save its guidance counselor’s job this year. McLean’s Kent Gardens Elementary shelled out for a new science curriculum. And Oak View Elementary, in Silver Spring, paid for printer cartridges and after-school buses.Where’d the ... Read more...