A panel of nationally distinguished African American education scholars, policymakers and practitioners will address the intersection of practice, research and policy as they relate to African American children. The 2008 ISAAC Roundtable on African American Education will take place on Saturday, July 19, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., at Wayne State University's McGregor Memorial Conference Center. The mission of ISAAC is to understand factors that contribute to the African American academic achievement gap and to identify and support strategies that help narrow and close that gap in order to propel African American children to their rightful position of excellence and leadership in the world.
Meharry Medical College, the first Black medical school in the U.S., founded by the Freedman's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Spelman College, the first college for Black women in the U.S., founded by Sophia B. Packard and Harriet E. Giles. In Grutter v. Bollinger, the Supreme Court (5-4) upholds the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action policy, ruling that race can be one of many factors considered by colleges when selecting their students because it furthers "a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body.
scassidy@lnpnews.com Amid the din of collegiate marching bands performing at Clipper Magazine Stadium Saturday, another kind of drumbeat was sounded, urging young African-American students to work hard in school, and set their sights on college.
This article describes an education program initiated by African American prisoners in the Airway Heights Correction Center in Airway Heights, Washington. The purpose of the program was to help the inmates to make productive use of their time while incarcerated and to help lessen the high return rate of African American men to the prison. Although hesitant to permit a race specific program the correctional center awarded the African American Literature Program as volunteer group of the year.
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