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The college-going gap between Black and white Americans was always bad. It’s getting worse

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Nesbitt African American Cultural Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. But the outcomes aren’t showing that,” said Justin Nalley, senior policy analyst at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Black think tank. It’s just the way society is.” Patrick Ben III at the Bruce D.

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Arkansas schools hire untrained teachers as people lose interest in the profession

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She says retaining teachers is as much a problem as attracting them if not more so because the decline of manufacturing jobs in her area has created a downward economic spiral, and teachers want to live where their spouses can find jobs. I’ve done demos before. You’re taught really about cultural competencies. We’ve done labs.

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We won’t have any black Mark Zuckerbergs or Bill Gates till we do this

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According to findings from the left-leaning public policy organization Demos, the median white adult who attended college has 7.2 Indeed, being a black college dropout negatively affects earnings by at least $10 per hour, according to research by the Economic Policy Institute. Leave this field empty if you're human: Why is this?