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Spelman College announced today, Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine, will deliver the keynote...

Chicago-based organization OneGoal is planning to increase the percentage of students from low-income communities who complete college after receiving a $1.5 million contribution from AT&T. The organization, which focuses on college access and success, started as an afterschool program serving 32 students. Originally called OneGoal Fellows, it has grown to a larger organization that equips teachers […]

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo’s chronically struggling school system is considering an idea gaining momentum in other cities: public boarding schools that put round-the-clock attention…

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After 30 years of little to no progress, Black youth are completing high school at the highest rates in history. This is…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The gap in bachelor-degree attainment between the nation’s richest and poorest students by age 24 has doubled during the last four…

WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — In a broad defense of his foreign policy, President Barack Obama declared Wednesday that the U.S. remains the world’s most…

BALTIMORE (AP) — The odds have long been stacked against students like those in Edward Ennels’ remedial math classes at Baltimore City Community College. Only…

“Raise your eyes now, and look from the place where you are…for all the land that you see I will give to...