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The HistoryMakers, the largest national collection effort of African American video oral histories on record, held its annual Digital Archive Competition earlier this spring. Two talented young winners were selected.
Executive talks tips for helping formerly incarcerated millennials rejoin the workforce.Â
Unfortunately, a child’s odds of receiving a great education too often comes down to the income of the parents or the color of his or her skin. While the graduation rate for all students is at an all-time high, at 82%, only 40% of those students are ready for college. Only 12% of black students, 25% of Hispanic students, and 20% of low-income white students who graduate from high school are prepared for college classes (ACT 2015 data).
Allen’s 2014 book, Our Democracy, was inspired by a night class she taught for 10 years to low-income adult students in Chicago. According to the article, it was the students in her night class that showed her how the “Declaration of Independence is the story of human agency.â€
KEF sees community college as an economic engine for students, many of whom have what it takes to succeed at top four-year colleges like Amherst, Syracuse, Stanford, and Tufts, among many others, but who often don’t see themselves in that light.
