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...
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...