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*Duke University has gotten somewhat of a reputation for being racially insensitive. Last March, Jalen Rose was under fire for his remarks about the school and his idea that a lot of black students from the inner city may share. He said that “Schools like Duke don’t recruit players like me” or black kids from [...]
*With minority students continuing to lag in educational achievement, the federal government has targeted the nation’s second largest public school system for wide-ranging reforms. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education announced that, after a 19-month civil rights investigation, they found that the Los Angeles Unified School District was failing to provide equal education to [...]
*The U.K.’s two elite universities admit a paltry number of black students to their undergraduate programs, the Guardian reports. Last year, 21 Oxbridge colleges did not offer admission to a single black student. Oxford’s storied Merton college has not accepted a black student for five years. Out of all of its colleges, Oxford accepted one [...]
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