‘Education’ Articles

The Urban League of Greater Miami is launching a new program aimed at schools that lack educational opportunity and students from minority backgrounds. (With video) Full Article

On January 4, the Urban League of Greater Miami will launch its most ambitious educational campaign to date, focused on turning around the lack of educational achievement among students in many of Miami-Dade’s predominantly Black and Hispanic schools. Over the last ten years, Miami-Dade schools have made tremendous strides at improving Full Article

On Sunday, January 31, 2010, the Urban League of Greater Miami will host two sites for “College Goal Sunday Florida,” a program that helps students get the money they need for college, by providing free, expert assistance completing the application for Federal Student Aid. College Goal Sunday will provide help to approximately 150 Full Article

Less than fifty percent of young Black men graduated from high school in the United States during the 2005-2006 school year, according to a new report commissioned by the Schott Foundation for Public Education. Dropping out of high school sentences young Black males to menial jobs, street-corner hustling, illicit activities, fathering children out Full Article

From the Washington Post: “Why don’t you guys study like the kids from Africa?” In a moment of exasperation last spring, I asked that question to a virtually all-black class of 12th-graders who had done horribly on a test I had just given. A kid who seldom came to class — and was constantly distracting Full Article

I find it ironic that 15,000 people will show up tonight to watch Northwestern and Central High Schools play in the “Commissioner’s Cup, with the big game televised on ESPN2, but you probably couldn’t get 15 parents from either school to show up for a PTSA meeting, to inquire why both these schools are chronically failing, F institutions Full Article

This year, Miami Edison Senior High School began its eighth year as a failing school. Next year, if school administrators have their way, no one will even remember the old school was there. How to fix a failing school? Apparently, one way is to make the failing students disappear. In the case of Edison, too Full Article

Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League – A few weeks ago, the nation’s 50 million public school children returned to the classroom. According to the U.S. Department of Education, this included a record 3.8 million kindergarteners. While we should be pleased that enrollments are up, we cannot ignore the fact that, if Full Article

September 14, 2009 – More than 60 deserving students who participate in Urban League programs in Miami-Dade and Broward enjoyed a $300 shopping spree courtesy of the jason Taylor Foundation during the 2009 “Cool Gear for the School Year” program Students, celebrities, and Taylor and some of his Miami Dolphins teammates mingled Full Article

President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged the nation’s students to stay in school, study hard, and take charge of their own futures. Full Article