Not Keeping Up: HBCU Athletes and Academics
 

Not Keeping Up: HBCU Athletes and Academics

The Root, News Report, Deron Synder, Posted: May 31, 2011

According to a new NCAA report, a disproportionate number of historically black colleges and universities have been sanctioned because of poor academic performance by sports teams.

Why Vietnam’s Government Shouldn’t Fear Facebook and Social Media

 

Talk.Onevietnam.org, News Report, Posted: May 30, 2011

According to Dr. Jennifer Brinkerhoff of George Washington University, who has spoken at several security conferences regarding digital diaspora networks, extremist networks tend to become more liberal as their membership grows. The idea is that a network might start with an extreme point of view, but as they grow, that point of view becomes more centric. Extreme points of view are replaced with more centric, mainstream views. It’s a regression towards the mean, a well understood concept in statistics, being applied to social networks.

 

Behind Bars: For Black Girls, Acting Out Is a Crime

 

Equal Voice Newspaper, News Feature, Kathy Mulady, Posted: May 30, 2011

To those who work with low-income African-American youth, the link between poverty, abuse, punitive school policies and the growing incarceration of young women is all too clear.

 

Cal Students Rally in Support of DREAM Act

 

New America Media, News Report, Major Tian, Posted: May 29, 2011

Student groups in the University of California system are campaigning to support two state assembly bills introduced in January so the state can have its own DREAM Act.

 

School Churns Out College-Bound Grads in East Palo Alto

 

New America Media, Video, Story: Anjana Sundaram//Video: Ann Bassette, Posted: May 29, 2011

With 80 percent of Eastside alumni enrolled in or graduate of a four-year college, the school is building a college-going culture in East Palo Alto.

 

NY Dept. of Education Sued Over School Closings

 

Amsterdam News, News Report, Stephon Johnson, Posted: May 27, 2011

A coalition has joined forces to block the Bloomberg administration and the Department of Education (DOE) from closing schools throughout New York City.

 

Economy Worries New College Grads

 

Washington Afro, News Report, Vincent Smith, Posted: May 27, 2011

The poor state of the nation’s economy is giving chills to new college graduates as thousands face the real world this spring.

 

NAM Radio: Zero Tolerance, University Medalist, Arab-American Women, I Heart Hamas

 

New America Media, Audio, Shirin Sadeghi, Posted: May 27, 2011

New Show: Zero tolerance school policy, Berkeley's 2011 University Medal winner, a Palestinian-American woman's story, the one-woman comedy of I Heart Hamas.

 

YO! Thoughts: What Do You Think About the Schwarzenegger Scandal?

 

New America Media, Video, Sean Shavers, Posted: May 25, 2011

NAM hit the streets of San Francisco to get a pulse of how people feel towards the former governor of California following the news of his recent scandal.

 

67 Sueños -- Activating the Silent Majority Left Out of Dream Act

 

New America Media, Video, Josue Rojas and Ann Bassette, Posted: May 25, 2011

According to a recent study by the Migration Policy Institute, 67 percent of undocumented youth and young adults would not qualify for the Dream Act.

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