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MSIs May Be Called On To Produce Degree-holding Head Start Teachers

New legislation to increase education level of preschool teachers.

December 10, 2007

Grants & Gifts

The COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY has received a three-year grant totaling more than $745,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to make the college’s nursing program available online. CCBC will begin offering this online nursing program in the fall of 2008. EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY (Va.) has received $399,649 from Higher Education […]

November 28, 2007

Experts Urge ‘Culturally Competent’ Programs for Educating Hispanic Families

With an already exploding population growth, Hispanic people will have a growing impact on all policy matters related to the family, and in effect, health care and education, according to a new report.

November 20, 2007

Experts Urge ‘Culturally Competent’ Programs for Educating Hispanic Families

With an already exploding population growth, Hispanic people will have a growing impact on all policy matters related to the family, and in effect, health care and education, according to a new report.

November 20, 2007

Reality infused into Livingstone’s teacher education program: early successes seen with African American male instructors – Livingstone College in North Carolina

The chart below looks at student in institutions and departments offering teacher education. It is subdivided into five blocks, one comparing actual numbers, the other four comparing percentages. The chart reads as follows:

July 11, 2007

Community Colleges

The journey towards a better life requires an educational passport

A few weeks ago, more than 800 new Americans took their oath of citizenship on the campus of North Harris College in l this stirring ceremony has been reenacted here some 15 times in the past three years swearing in 13,000 new citizens.

June 22, 2007

River deep, mountain high: modern-day griots pass on ways to hurdle racism

I’ve Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation, by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Penguin Books (New York), 1995, 644 pp., $14.95 (U.S.), $19.99 (Canada) softcover.

June 15, 2007

Grants & Awards

Alabama State University received a $10,000 grant from math and science department chair Dr. Wallace Maryland Jr. and his wife, Naomi, to endow the Wallace and Naomi Maryland Scholarship in the ASU Trust for Educational Excellence. The scholarship is designated for students studying math or science. Albright College (Pa.) received a $4.75 million grant from […]

November 30, 2005

Evaluating the Benefits of Lifelong Learning

Faculty & Staff

Psychology Studies Pioneer, Head Start Co-founder Dies at 88

Dr. Urie Bronfenbrenner, a Cornell University psychologist who pioneered an interdisciplinary approach to the study of child development and helped create…

September 28, 2005

New Data: $3.4 Billion Head Start ‘Funding Gap’ Seen as Congress Moves to Raise Teacher Requirements

A U.S. Senate bill expected to be voted on this summer would force Head Start programs to add or “upgrade” more… Story:

August 10, 2005

Survey: Two-Thirds of Head Start Programs Expect Service, Staff Cuts in 2005

Survey: Two-Thirds of Head Start Programs Expect Service, Staff Cuts in 2005WASHINGTON Despite being one of the most successful programs in the federal government, Head Start, which gets America’s poorest children ready to learn in kindergarten and beyond, is in a bad way today after three years of “neglect and disdain,” according to a recent […]

November 17, 2004

GOP Policy on Early Childhood Program Draws Ire

GOP Policy on Early Childhood Program Draws IreAn increasingly bitter debate over the future of Head Start is drawing interest from African American lawmakers and experts across the educational pipeline who value the work of the 38-year-old early childhood program.At issue is a Bush administration and House of Representatives plan to give states more control […]

July 16, 2004

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