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Which HBCUs will Survive the 21st Century?
Date: Monday, August 27th
Time: 6:30pm
Where: @hopescholarship
The non-profit organization College Board placed 857 empty school desks on the National Mall to represent the number of students who drop out of school every hour of the school day.
The New York Times recently wrote an article detailing one New Jersey school district’s impending decision to join several other schools across the country in reducing the amount of homework assigned to students. The article suggests ten minutes of homework per night beginning with first graders and increasing at ten minute increments for each successive grade level, with no homework on weekends, school holidays, or extended breaks.
I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they’re here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It’s like looking at all the students and wondering who’s had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why.a
Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
Methodology:
These historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) were compared only with one another for these rankings. In order to be on the list, a school must be designated currently by the U.S. Department of Education as an HBCU. To qualify for the U.S. News ranking, an HBCU also…
