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In 1972, the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Office of Special Concern's Office of African-American Affairs, awarded NABSS a grant to conduct an in-depth research study of 40 school districts headed by African-American superintendents. Dr. Meharry Lewis was the principal investigator for the grant.
The Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO), informally named the "Olympics of the Mind," is a youth program of the NAACP that is "designed to recruit, stimulate, improve and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African American high school students."
The History of African-American education deals with the public and private schools at all levels used by African Americans in the United States and for the related policies and debates. Black schools, also referred to as "Negro schools" and " colored schools ", were racially segregated schools in the United States that originated in the ...
READ MORE: Lawyers have 3 students ready to sue if Florida bans African-American Studies AP class The College Board is expected to release its updated version of the AP course Wednesday, the first ...
This is the second school year College Board — a national nonprofit that creates AP classes that high school students can take for college credit — is piloting AP African American Studies.
The project was the product of the partnership of Julius Rosenwald, a Jewish-American clothier who became part-owner and president of Sears, Roebuck and Company and the African-American leader, educator, and philanthropist Booker T. Washington, who was president of the Tuskegee Institute.
Ivory Achebe Toldson (born 1973) is an American academic and author. He is a professor of Counseling Psychology at Howard University, national director of Education Innovation and Research for the NAACP, [1] the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Negro Education, and executive editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Research, published by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. [2 ...
Tyrone C. Howard is an American educator, academic, and author.He is a professor of Education in the School of Education and Information Studies [1] and the Founder and executive director of the Black Male Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. [2]