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In terms of college knowledge, many minority students do not have access to social capital because of the lack of resources catered to them to ensure their success. There also is a lack of knowledge among minority students about what resources are available, especially because many of them are first-generation students. [17]
Some locations on free, publicly viewable satellite map services have such issues due to having been intentionally digitally obscured or blurred for various reasons of this. [1] For example, Westchester County, New York asked Google to blur potential terrorism targets (such as an amusement park, a beach, and parking lots) from its satellite ...
The right to education has been recognized as a human right in a number of international conventions, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which recognizes a right to free, primary education for all, an obligation to develop secondary education accessible to all with the progressive introduction of free secondary education, as well as an obligation to ...
Getting a top-tier education just got a whole lot easier and a lot less expensive. Source: Sean MacEntee on Flickr. There is no denying that college has gotten monumentally expensive, and as shown ...
On December 2, 2011, President Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13592—Improving American Indian and Alaska Native Educational Opportunities and Strengthening Tribal Colleges and Universities, which ordered the Department of Education to work closely with tribal governments to help improve educational opportunities provided to all AI/AN ...
Spartanburg area high school students learned Thursday, Nov. 14, that Meeting Street Scholarship Fund, a private scholarship program, was expanding to Spartanburg County offering qualifying ...
For example, a report from the U.S. Department of Education on the characteristics of MSIs [2] defined MSI based on either of two separate criteria; 1) legislation (e.g. HBCU, TCU, or 2) percentage of minority undergraduate enrollment based on IPEDS data [3] (i.e. "institutions that enroll at least 25 percent of a specific minority group are ...
(The Center Square) – The University of Texas System may soon offer "tuition free education" to students whose families make less than $100,000 a year, a program some are calling “a socialist ...