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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 racial achievement gap in the United States refers to disparities in educational achievement between differing ethnic/racial groups. [1] It manifests itself in a variety of ways: African-American and Hispanic students are more likely to earn lower grades, score lower on standardized tests, drop out of high school, and they are less likely to enter and complete college than whites, while ...
Thompson worked to provide other African American students with the opportunity to use the resources available to him in education to be able to spread information about education and race. [5] He had a strong belief that education should be available to gifted African American students and anyone in low income families so that everyone would ...
It may be referred to as streaming or phasing in some schools. In a tracking system, the entire school population is assigned to classes according to whether the students' overall achievement is above average, normal, or below average. Students attend academic classes only with students whose overall academic achievement is the same as their own.
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 ...
In May 1989, Robert M. Sellers, Todd C. Shaw, Robert Brown, Daria Kirby, Lisa M. Brown, and Thomas LaVeist—graduate students at the University of Michigan—planned and hosted the National Black Graduate Student Conference (NBGSC) to "address some of the issues that the African American community faced."
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. [1]
Reginald Lewis, first African-American to build and own a billion dollar company - Virginia State; Claude McKay, poet, Tuskegee University; Astronaut Ronald McNair graduated from North Carolina A&T State University. Rod Paige, first African-American to serve as the U.S. education chief - Jackson State University