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A college where the graduation rate for black students has been 0 percent — for years
Several Ohio campuses have abysmal success rates for black college students, even as the state pushes for, and desperately needs, more graduates This story about Kent State Ashtabula was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter. By Delece Smith-Barrow and…
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CDC Reverses Course Again on Using Race As Testing Criteria
Minority Groups with Higher Case and Death Rates Deemed a Priority, Then Not By Afi Scruggs After changing the guidelines to test ethnic minority groups disproportionately affected by COVID-19, the CDC reversed course again Wednesday, saying that African Americans exposed to the virus could not get tested without symptoms. A May 3 directive allowed physicians…
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