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...quarter of all African-American graduates. A 2007 study showed that black men who attend a black college as opposed to another four-year school enjoy a hefty lifetime-earnings boost. HBCU alumni include Booker T. Washington, Toni Morrison, Sean (Diddy) Combs, Oprah Winfrey and more than a third of the current Congressional Black Caucus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resisting School Integration in Savannah | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...students, who get to go there only when (already overworked) teachers can escort them and handle the record-keeping. "With all of the cutbacks we've had in the last few years, the district can't pay for someone to help check out books," explains Pam Wiesenberg, a third-grade teacher at the school. "As a result, the children suffer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Reading, Writing and Recession Work Together | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...That’s right, Princeton—which was picked last in the Ivy League Preseason poll—is now in first place. Dartmouth, the team picked just ahead of the Tigers at the beginning of the year, is in third. Normally, I would chuck the lack of a clear-cut number one in the league to poor research by the Ivy officials...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Ancient Eight in State of Disarray | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...Yale crushed Harvard, which played miserably, but then fell to Dartmouth in a game it needed to win to get into third place in the Ivies. Which Bulldog team will show up? Yale will have the advantage at home, and I’m sticking to my guns: Princeton can’t be this good...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Ancient Eight in State of Disarray | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...losses for the first time this year, falling to Yale 6-3.After a weekend split against Ivy rivals Princeton and Penn, the Harvard men’s squash team (6-4, 3-3 Ivy League) returned to the Barnaby Courts last night for its final regular-season match, hosting the third-ranked and archrival Bulldogs (13-2, 5-1). Yale promised to be a formidable opponent, showing energy and confidence as a result of winning five of their last six contests, and delivered with three matches in straight sets. However, the night began in high spirits for the Crimson...

Author: By Katie Kuzma, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Drops Close Decision To Yale | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

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