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*WASHINGTON — Four high school seniors have been named recipients of the 2013 ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Math and Science Scholarship by the Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS). Students were selected from several hundred applicants for their academic performance, leadership qualities and community involvement. The scholarship program was created by former NASA astronaut [...]
*A Grand Rapids charter school founded by gospel singer Marvin Sapp announced Monday that next school year it will offer classes in grades pre-K to 5, a move administrators say is aimed at meeting demand for the school’s arts and technology driven instructional approach, says MLive.com. Grand Rapids Ellington Academy of Arts and Technology, which [...]
*Hmm, maybe T.J. Holmes‘ late night show “Don’t Sleep” is not the snoozer some think it is. Apparently BET thinks it’s a hit. So much so that the network expanded the show to a full hour beginning tomorrow (11-14-12), at 11pm Eastern. However, the show will only air on a weekly basis. Hold up. Wait [...]
*Rapper Drake is now the proud owner of a high school diploma. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] After tweeting that he’s been hitting the books hard for five months in summer school, the Young Money artist passed his finals with flying colors. “97% on my final exam. 88% in the course. One of the greatest [...]
*NBA legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson has brought his education program to Georgia. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The Magic Johnson Bridgescape center, now open and accepting students in Atlanta, is designed to assist high school-age students who have either left school or are at risk of leaving. It allows students to earn a standard high [...]
*Twenty years after I graduated from college I still owe student loans. And since I didn’t’ owe enough, I went back to school and got a master’s degree with borrowed money. My mother keeps asking me to get a PHD, but I’m not going to pay anybody else to tell me how smart I am, [...]
*Ludacris isn’t only about booty droppin’ and bottle poppin’. He’s got substance too. He and his 10-year-old daughter, Karma, have been working together to launch an interactive, educational website filled with fun activities and of course, music for the kids. In an interview with Ebony, the rapper revealed that the site (KARMASWORLD.COM), which was originally [...]
*More than any other group in California, African Americans stand to gain the most significant lift out of poverty from earning a college degree, according to a new report, says the Huffington Post. Taking a deeper look at data from a study it released in April, the nonprofit Campaign for College Opportunity this month released more detailed [...]
*Every year, U.S. News and World Report Magazine comes out with a list of the best colleges and universities in the country. But never do we see a list of the best black colleges and universities on that list. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB RSS FEED] Well, our partner site MadameNoire decided to take matters into their [...]
*Education is the key to freedom for many. An advanced education promises higher salaries and benefits for most, but there are still some that are finding that the hundreds of thousands of dollars that have been spent on several degrees far outweigh their ability to repay those loans. A recent report from ABC, gives clear [...]
*While retired from the NBA after 19 seasons, it seems as if Shaquille O’ Neal had been playing around and living it up. But it turns out the big man had been working hard to earn his Ph.D. The four-time champion proudly received his degree from Barry University on Saturday in Miami, Fla. He celebrated [...]
*Kerry Washington and Forest Whitaker are adopting some of the nation’s worst-performing schools and pledging Monday to help the Obama administration turn them around by integrating arts education, reports the Huffington Post. The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities will announce a new Turnaround Arts initiative as a pilot project for eight schools [...]
*For the third consecutive year, every single senior at Urban Prep Academy, the only all-black, all-male charter high school in Chicago, has been accepted to college, school officials announced. The academy also said that 83 percent of its first graduating class in 2010 has re-enrolled in a second year of college, a rebuttal to critics [...]
*If you are a youngster reading this, make sure you do well in school or else you could face this embarrassment. A Florida father, who was sick and tired of his child getting bad grades and not listening to him, went to extreme measures. He made the boy stand on a sidewalk with signs asking [...]
*Everyone realizes that the GOP has done nothing more than entertain the country with their antics throughout their campaign. They are really turning out to be a Ringling Bros. of politics right now with Rick Santorum coming out as Ringmaster. It’s clear that either they could’ve benefited from receiving a better education or they’re clearly [...]
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