Education

Duke University discontinued its Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholarship Program, a full-ride scholarship historically awarded to Black undergraduate students. The decision could have national implications.

Black students owe an average of 188% more student loan debt than white students — and consolidation could lead to total cancellation.

The longest-enduring standardized college admissions test in the nation, the SAT has faced decades of controversy over bias and criticism for reducing aspiring college students to a test score. It has also been denounced as part of the high barrier to entry into the so-called American meritocracy.

Research continues to show that majority-Black school districts struggle to recruit and retain qualified special education teachers.

The number-one concern among teachers – student poverty – is the root of other major problems, like absenteeism and depression.

Going to college is supposed to be the path to a more prosperous life. But the cost of getting a degree has become a financial albatross, weighing down borrowers from the day they graduate to the day they retire — if retirement is even possible.

In the Black community, from the time of enslaved ancestors to the founding of HBCUs, it’s a truism: Black teachers have been beacons of education, hope, and freedom. Yet Black educators as a whole make up just 7% of the nation’s teaching workforce, with Black men taking up fewer than 2% of the space.

The Biden administration said Friday that is using existing student loan forgiveness programs to cancel another round of student debt, totaling $7.4 billion for 277,000 borrowers.

In a country growing more diverse by the day, we have the power to stop book bans and other attempts to erase Black history.

New research on math instruction confirms what many already know: When students get intensive, in-class help with their lessons, their grades go up.