The youngsters, the parents and the teachers at Village Prep and E-Prep are held to high standards, high expectations, no excuses and very strict discipline.
 

African-American  and Latino males represent roughly 3.5 percent of all U.S. teachers.

Under former district policy, some class positions rotated by race each year.

The National Science Foundation’s Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) program has been a tremendous success in increasing enrollments of minority students in computer science.
 

Charter schools, only a small presence before the storm hit on Aug. 29, 2005, now are ascendant, representing about 70 percent of the city’s 88 public schools.

About 150 black ninth-grade boys faced three dozen black men in suits Wednesday morning at Creighton University. Behind the men was a large poster that asked, “Which path will you choose?”
 

The students are the first to attend the newly opened Hardy Brown College Prep, a charter school designed to give black youngsters an educational edge.

For almost three decades beginning in 1936, many African-American travelers relied on a booklet, a safe travel guide during the era of racial discrimination.
 

A national report says a quarter of middle and high school students say both are present on their campuses, a vast difference from the scene at private and religious schools.

Why emancipating yourself will not boost your aid package.

A recent study by the Schott Foundation for Public Education reported that Newark, NJ leads the nation in the percent of African American male students graduating from high school, followed by MD, CA and PA.
 

For the fourth consecutive year, U.S.News & World Report has produced a ranking of the undergraduate education at historically black colleges and universities (HBCU).