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    The NCAA Enacts New Academic Standards for Division I Sports Programs

    Mar 14, 2005 05:00 AM EST

    ... are doing. GWEN IFILL: Todd Turner, you work on a college campus as well running the athletics department. To what do you attribute this incredible gap between what student athletes do as students and what they do as athletes? TODD TURNER: Well, student athletes have a lot of challenges dealing ...

  • Chronic absenteeism is up across the country. School leaders are trying to address why

    Chronic absenteeism is up across the country. School leaders are trying to address why

    Jan 17, 2024 10:23 PM EST

    ... score declines in reading, citing research from the Council of Economic Advisers. Absenteeism can also be a predictor of whether students will drop out before graduation, something that can lead to adverse health effects and lower lifetime earnings . In Ross’ district, the attendance rate dropped from 83 percent in 2019 ...

  • How higher ed is trying to improve student performance with data

    How higher ed is trying to improve student performance with data

    Aug 26, 2022 01:56 PM EST

    Another historically Black college, Morgan State University, in Baltimore, homed in on sophomore retention as a way to boost its graduation rates. The university runs a Second Year Experience program that encourages sophomores to participate in either an internship, a research experience, study abroad (pre-COVID-19), a service-learning ...

  • Report details brutal treatment of Indigenous children attending U.S. boarding schools

    Report details brutal treatment of Indigenous children attending U.S. boarding schools

    May 11, 2022 10:35 PM EST

    ... of poverty and premature death and suicide, some of the lowest rates of graduation. So I want to ask you to connect the dots for us. Do you believe that this effort, this investigation, it can help to close some of those gaps? What's your hope? Deborah Parker: Absolutely.

  • WATCH: How student loan debt disproportionately hurts Black borrowers

    WATCH: How student loan debt disproportionately hurts Black borrowers

    Apr 12, 2022 06:41 PM EST

    ... lower performing institutions. They're more likely to be targeted by for-profit institutions, which usually are more expensive and have some of the lowest graduation rates. And then on top of all of that, they enter a labor market that still has continuous wage gaps, still has patterns of ...

  • ‘We just feel it’: Racism plagues U.S. military academies

    ‘We just feel it’: Racism plagues U.S. military academies

    Dec 03, 2021 04:07 PM EST

    ... Merely 16. According to the data provided to the AP, graduation rates between racial groups at the Naval and Coast Guard academies continued to show gaps. At the Naval Academy, for example, Black midshipmen still had the lowest graduation rate of any racial group at 74%, compared to the 2020 ...

  • ‘These conversations are not comfortable’ -- How colleges can address racial inequality

    ‘These conversations are not comfortable’ -- How colleges can address racial inequality

    Jan 07, 2018 07:00 PM EST

    ... started getting threats of violence in racist emails. In June, a caller to the school threatened a mass shooting, provoking the university to hold its graduation ceremony off-campus. And two weeks later a right-wing group held an event it promoted as a “free speech” rally at the school ...

  • Nationwide, state budget cuts disproportionately hit low-income, minority college students

    Nationwide, state budget cuts disproportionately hit low-income, minority college students

    Jan 03, 2017 06:29 PM EST

    ... and Universities. Critics say the cuts are also due to politics and to new rules tying state spending to institutions’ performance on such things as graduation rates, putting colleges that take students who are less well prepared at a disadvantage. Whatever the cause, those critics say, the trend is further ...

  • Few women run the nation's school districts. Why?

    Few women run the nation's school districts. Why?

    Dec 30, 2016 09:50 PM EST

    siness." Council Bluff's graduation rate has increased during Bruckner's tenure, climbing from 68 percent to 88 percent over eight years. In 2015, she was named Iowa's superintendent of the year. Coziahr thinks other Iowa districts may be more willing to hire women based on Bruckner's success ...

  • Feds give states more time to bolster struggling schools

    Feds give states more time to bolster struggling schools

    Nov 28, 2016 03:30 PM EST

    "The final rules give states more time and flexibility to provide every student with a high-quality, well-rounded education while ensuring that states and districts keep the focus on improving outcomes and maintaining civil rights protections for all of our children, particularly those who need our support the most," King said in a statement.