Minority Education

The Education Revolution

Hernan Vera | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: School Discipline, Minority Education, Education, School System, School Detention, Latino Education, Video, Latino Voices News
Hernan Vera

Latinos are more likely than white students to receive suspensions. Students with disabilities are twice as likely to get these higher forms of punishment. These large differences continue to be found even when researchers compare students of similar backgrounds.

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Report: Wide White-Hispanic Education Achievement Gap Persists

Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Pew Center, Pew Hispanic Center, White Hispanic Achievement Gap, Arne Duncan, Education Achievement Gap, Achievement Gap, Minority Education, Hispanics, Hispanic-Education-Gap, Naep, Education Equity, Education News

By Molly O'Toole WASHINGTON -- The Hispanic-white educational achievement gap has remained wide over the past two decades, according to a new report...

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Harlem Comes To Hungary

Dan Collins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harlem Children's Zone, Obama Education Reform, Minority Education, Geoffrey Canada, Obama Education, Hungary Gypsies, Hungary Roma, Hungary, Promise Academy, Promise Neighborhoods, New York News
Dan Collins

Geoff Canada looks to be taking on the most unusual challenge of his career. The Harlem Children's Zone founder is in talks to bring his cradle-to-college education formula to the Roma (Gypsy) children of Hungary.

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Harlem's Miracle Man

Dan Collins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Minority Education, Harlem Children's Zone, Geoffrey Canada, Obama Education Reform, Charter Schools, Obama Education, Achievement Gap, New York News
Dan Collins

Geoffrey Canada has developed a cradle-to-college educational formula that may enable thousands of minority children to break the cycle of poverty.

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Can You Tell Me How to Get To Science Street?

Gabrielle Lyon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Educate to Innovate, Sesame Street, Education, Obama Education, Barack Obama, Science Education, Equity and Education, Science Afterschool, Science Out-of-School, Afterschool, Minority Education, Project Exploration, Politics News
Gabrielle Lyon

One-day activities, demonstrations and short-term programs targeting highly-engaged students are not going to change who gets involved with science. Obama's "Educate to Innovate" does little to remove basic barriers.

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