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Moving past Black America's Talented Tenth: Can the Black Bourgeoisie Do More?
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This is the season for cotillions and now botillions, scholarships, luncheons and banquets, opportunities for those who have, and for those who work for companies who have, to send as many students to college as they can. Or do they send as many students to college as they can?
College has become more competitive, as higher education has become a more prized commodity in the global workforce. Even the once "self-made" man and woman, whose entrepreneurial spirit once shunned education, ...
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Who qualifies for w.e.b dubois' 'talented tenth' today?: The great civil rights leaders emphasized education, but the African-American hip-hop generation measures its best and brightest in a broader way.
Chicago Sun-Times
; My family and I had just finished eating gumbo and were making our way toward peach cobbler. As we sat in my aunt's living room in Chicago, the conversation evolved into a cocktail-hour salon about W.E.B. DuBois and the Talented Tenth. Turning toward the twentysomethings in the room, a family
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College should commit
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; College should commit By RESLER Saturday, September 16, 2000 If you can choose your neighbors, it's hard to beat a small, quiet, well-endowed liberal arts college. But when the college is a relatively new neighbor and one that has also grown by big leaps in recent years, neighborliness is bound to
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The winners; Fifty-two girls from Minneapolis-area private and public high schools will receive Athena Awards at a 11:30 a.m. luncheon today at the Minneapolis Convention Center. The awards recognize the senior selected the top female athlete at her school. A look at the award winners, listed in alphabetical order, with their high school, sports and, if available, college choices:.(SPORTS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; Kachine Alexander, Benilde-St. Margaret's: VB, BK. College: Iowa. Molly Belk, Minneapolis South: SW. College: Minnesota. Erin Bennek, Totino-Grace: XC, HK, SB. College: Undecided. Ashley Bliskowski, St. Francis: HK. College: Minnesota State Mankato. Rachel Booth, DeLaSalle: BK. College: St. Cloud
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Should College be an Inalienable Right?
The Washington Post
; Attending college today is often considered an inalienable right among high school students. Other post-high school education (i.e. trade schools, apprenticeships, etc.) is often felt to be a second-best alternative-an option only for those who cannot afford or gain entrance to college. Should
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Success in College: From C's in High School to A's in College
Journal of College Student Development
; Success in College: From C's in High School to A's in College Peter F. Burns Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield Education, 2006, 120 pages, $18.95 (softcover) Success in College: From C's in High School to A's in College offers strategies and advice students can use to flourish academically in
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