• Brooks and Capehart on key moments in the 2024 race in the final weeks before Election Day

    Brooks and Capehart on key moments in the 2024 race in the final weeks before Election Day

    Oct 18, 2024 10:35 PM EST

    ... handful of states, we know it's going to be won on the margins, right, unless anything dramatically changes. This other issue of the gender gap that we have seen, just a huge gender gap, with a huge male advantage for former President Trump and a huge female advantage for ...

  • St. Louis NAACP files civil rights complaint over low literacy rates among Black students

    St. Louis NAACP files civil rights complaint over low literacy rates among Black students

    Sep 18, 2024 10:23 PM EST

    ... a 2020 Gallup analysis of Education Department data. This means people are reading below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level. Despite higher high school graduation rates, 23 percent of adults still struggle to read, ProPublica reported in 2022, and access to adult literacy programs “is limited, increasingly insufficient and ...

  • Why fewer young men are choosing to pursue college degrees

    Why fewer young men are choosing to pursue college degrees

    Jun 25, 2024 10:25 PM EST

    ... think this is a matter of putting the needs of female students second. I think it's a matter of asking the basic question, why do we see differential graduation rates when we sort by gender and race? And that's where you really start to see this gap widen.

  • College hopefuls face changing admissions landscape after Supreme Court ruling

    College hopefuls face changing admissions landscape after Supreme Court ruling

    Sep 23, 2023 09:40 PM EST

    ... earnings for people who get bachelor's degrees compared to the average earnings for people who don't go to college, there's such a gap that in a year or two or three, you're going to make up that difference. If you're not prepared to study in ...

  • State Department plans on policy changes to woo international STEM students

    State Department plans on policy changes to woo international STEM students

    Jan 21, 2022 08:40 PM EST

    ... of U.S. doctoral degrees in economics, computer sciences, engineering and mathematics and statistics. But in the sciences and engineering, China is fast closing the gap in doctoral degrees by generating nearly as many graduates as the U.S. did in 2018.Business groups and immigration advocates welcomed Friday's ...

  • Millions of Americans saddled with student debt as debate continues over relief

    Millions of Americans saddled with student debt as debate continues over relief

    Mar 03, 2021 11:35 PM EST

    Paul Solman: Two-thirds of student debtors are women, who also face a gender wage gap that makes it harder to pay off their loans. And, says Zewde, Black grads owe more than their white classmates. Twelve years after graduation, almost half owe more than they'd borrowed. Naomi Zewde ...

  • ‘It’s just too much’: Why some students are abandoning community colleges

    ‘It’s just too much’: Why some students are abandoning community colleges

    Jan 19, 2021 08:04 PM EST

    Kamarree Williams had been on a path to college since before he learned long division. A 2020 high school graduate from Marin City, California, Williams had entered an after-school college prep program, Bridge the Gap, when he was in third grade. During high school, he took dual enrollment courses ...

  • Internships get canceled or go virtual because of pandemic

    Internships get canceled or go virtual because of pandemic

    Jun 16, 2020 09:03 PM EST

    ... the pandemic outbreak, and 64% of those in the U.K., according to research by Glassdoor, the career website. Hundreds of companies, including AirBnb, Fedex, Gap and Walt Disney Co., have scrapped their summer programs, according to an online database. Companies use summer internships as a pipeline for recruiting graduates ...

  • Childhood inequities worst for black and Native American communities, report says

    Childhood inequities worst for black and Native American communities, report says

    Jun 02, 2020 09:26 PM EST

    RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — Childhood disparities around malnutrition, graduation rates, and early deaths are worst among rural, black-majority counties in the American South and isolated counties with Native American populations, according to a new report. Those inequities put these populations more at risk for the novel coronavirus, the ...

  • Some U.S. schools are pulling the plug on distance learning

    Some U.S. schools are pulling the plug on distance learning

    May 14, 2020 05:25 PM EST

    “They weren’t able to get all the standards,” said Tammy Bailey, the science department chair at the high school. “I think there will be a gap.” Classes had been scheduled to run through May 21 but remote instruction instead came to an end March 8 in the Chattahoochee ...