education

Inspired by this post from @get these nets which talks about how the current Howard undergrad population is only 19% Black men. I pulled some numbers I downloaded from Department of Education tables (which I have on my drive since they may disappear soon) A lot has been discussed about male...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/03/trump-finalizing-plans-shutter-education-department-00202225 Glad I got the data for that HBCU thread two years ago. I might just download some of the DB.

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/23/1199469798/youtube-star-scientist-sabine-hossenfelder She got famous on YouTube. Now it helps fund her research in quantum gravity September 23, 2023 8:01 AM ET By Scott Neuman Theoretical physicist and YouTuber Sabine Hossenfelder, shown in a...

This is a response to this thread: https://www.thecoli.com/threads/black-men-attendance-of-hbcu-declining.1060288/ I wanted to dig into the numbers there but I didn't have time. I finally got some and will talk about it here: short answer is there is a decline in Black men at HBCUs but the way...

WSJ article is here though you may get hit with a paywall: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/christopher-rufo-education-trump-dei-bb9e7178?st=n1dgi9 Here are highlight quotes: Note, just about all schools get federal funding for things like research, aid, etc. This would directly...

Trying to see if something I've noticed over the years is actually happening or it's just my opinion.

So the 2023 consolidated birth number data is out from the CDC. I was going to do a post on IR births (Blacks still lowest but fastest growing) and such but I found something interesting regarding births by education and the immigrant backgrounds of mothers. Birth certificates track whether the...

https://venturebeat.com/ai/ex-openai-and-tesla-engineer-andrej-karpathy-announces-ai-native-school-eureka-labs/ Ex-OpenAI and Tesla engineer Andrej Karpathy announces AI-native school Eureka Labs Taryn Plumb @taryn_plumb July 16, 2024 3:23 PM Credit: VentureBeat made with Midjourney v6...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas issued a strong rebuke of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling on Thursday, suggesting the court overreached its authority in the landmark decision that banned separating schoolchildren by race. Why it matters: Thomas attacked the Brown decision in a...

https://www.reuters.com/world/mathematics-reading-skills-unprecedented-decline-teenagers-oecd-survey-2023-12-05/ Mathematics, reading skills in unprecedented decline in teenagers By Leigh Thomas December 5, 20236:09 AM ESTUpdated 4 hours ago Schoolchildren work in a classroom on the first...

https://www.insider.com/woman-shocked-to-discover-alaska-isnt-an-island-2023-11 An American woman said she was shocked to discover that Alaska isn't actually an island, calling for an 'overhaul' of the school curriculumAimee Pearcy Nov 15, 2023, 9:35 AM EST Alaska is the largest US state...

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https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/education/article279934629.html Idaho Sheriff Won’t Return Library Books He Thinks Are Obscene BY GARRETT CABEZA THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW SEPTEMBER 29, 2023 4:17 PM Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris poses with books he said he found offensive and wants...

Everyone knows about the reverse Great Migration back South and how a few cities are the biggest beneficiaries. What you might not be aware of is that migration is heavily biased towards the young and educated. The overall migrant population is more educated than the Black community at large...

More of the past HBCUS.... Friendship College Rock Hill, South Carolina 1891-1981 Friendship College, originally the Friendship Normal and Industrial Institute, was established in 1891 after conferences by Black Baptists in York and Chester counties. It originally combined an elementary...

I have been meaning to write about these for a bit ever since I did my (lately not updated) thread on the best private schools for Black kids. There are four Black boarding schools left in the US down from about 80-100 before World War II. Not all of those were big but there were some famous...

Mary Holmes College West Point, Mississippi 1892-2005 Mary Holmes College was a two-year coed college in West Point, Mississippi. It was founded by a White Presbyterian Minister - Rev. Mead Holmes and his daughter Mary Emilie Holmes as an institute for Black women to train them in homemaking...