C-CAP Careers: "Financing a culinary education can be challenging. By competing for and winning scholarship money, you can offset some of your educational costs.
C-CAP works each year to make financing culinary school easier. Since 1990, through annual spring competitions, we have awarded over $11 million worth of scholarships to hundreds of students. Some of the scholarships awarded are valued at $80,000. Other scholarships are partial or full-tuition waivers provided directly by culinary schools that participate with C-CAP. "

USATODAY.com - Equal access to schools fails to equalize education: "One statistic stands out: On average, black students who graduate from high school are equipped with the skills the average white student mastered by the eighth grade, according to federal tests."

The Young Eight: "The Young Eight is a group of young African American string players from The Juilliard School, The Boston Conservatory, Cleveland Institute of Music, Indiana University, Manhattan School of Music, Mannes College of Music, New England Conservatory of Music, and the North Carolina School of the Arts. Founded in 2002 at the North Carolina School of the Arts by director Quinton I. Morris, the ensemble is dedicated to exposing various communities to the arts through classical music.

The Young Eight has been successful establishing itself as one of the newest chamber music groups in the country. The group has been recognized in various parts of the country for its dedication to children, music and education.

Each year, The Young Eight hosts a summer residency program at the North Carolina School of the Arts (NCSA) and performs public concerts in the Winston-Salem community. The residency also includes a chamber music festival for high school and college students.

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Access might jeopardize students - Daily Trojan - News: "There is an 'overwhelming desire of parents for their children to go to college, but there's a corresponding lack of information about the financial aid process,' said Harry Pachon, president of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute."

CB Teen Magazine Is Offering Students Over $75,000 in Scholarships and Prizes... Sometimes The Best Things in Life Are Free

SavannahNOW | Local News When kids think they're smart 04/11/04: "Students who choose the AVID elective must commit to taking rigorous advance placement courses, and to maintaining an above average GPA, taking notes in all of their classes and participating in extracurricular activities. They have to turn in progress reports every two weeks. Sometimes, they're even required to turn in their notes and homework to be checked over. In return, they're given academic assistance and essential college preparation information."

Business Centre - canada.com network: "The curriculum, for students in kindergarten through high school, emphasizes good spending and savings techniques as well as credit management and charitable giving.

'It's aimed at making the world simple and transparent to day-to-day consumers,' Banga said.

The bank already has begun making grants to community groups to help them put the curriculum into use, Banga said. "

"One of the program's first projects is a Financial Education Challenge at a youth website run by Do Something. Participants can study the Citi curriculum at www.dosomething.org, then sign on to play an online game managing an imaginary $1,000 over a 10-day period. "

Harvard Gazette: More women than men admitted to Class of '08: "For the first time in Harvard's history, women comprise more than 50 percent of the students admitted to the freshman class."

The Emory Wheel - NAACP lawyer speaks on progress, development of civil rights history: " Constitution draws no distinctions on the 'colorblindness' that it claims to uphold,' Shaw said. Originally... black leaders [of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] used colorblindness as a way of saying that race does not make a difference but that people should not be blind to race as long as it continues to be significant,' he added.

Rather than being used as a means of gaining black equality, affirmative action is often employed to make communities more diverse, he said.

Shaw said this 'dishonest discourse' that is also present in the courts brings up some of the struggles blacks have yet to face.

'Affirmative action did not spring out of somebody's head because someone said racial diversity is a good thing, but is the result of the deep and long history of slavery, suffrage and civil rights,' he said."

Worries About Suitability Knock '1776' From Curriculum (washingtonpost.com): "Jefferson is balking at staying in Philadelphia to write the declaration and protests to Adams: 'I've not seen my wife in six months.'
Adams responds, 'You write 10 times better than any man in Congress, including me. For a man of only 33 years, you possess a happy talent for composition and a remarkable felicity of expression. Now, will you be a patriot . . . or a lover?'
Jefferson, clearly preferring the latter, says he 'burns' for his wife, at home in Virginia.
As everyone knows, Jefferson gave in and penned the nation's divorce decree from the British. But some Fairfax students won't see the fictional account of that history, now that the county's social studies coordinator has reviewed the film at the request of a middle school principal and deemed it inappropriate.
'I watched the video,' coordinator Sara Shoob said. 'There's some sexual innuendo and language, and when you're talking about the Declaration of Independence, that does not have to be part of your discussion.' "

[ 1776? You've got to be kidding. Add this to the flap over an undergrad's slasher story (via boingboing) and it all makes me want to go take a pill and lie down. School violence has been on the rise in this country since the 60's and 70's, but ever since Columbine we've gone soft in the head. It doesn't help that it appears that the courts will entertain any old complaint these days.- Barry ]

Kansas City Star | 04/03/2004 | Black-only awards end at two colleges:
By LYNN FRANEY The Kansas City Star

Washington University in St. Louis announced Friday that it will open a black-student scholarship program to applicants of all races, after federal officials encouraged the move earlier this week.

St. Louis University, which civil rights investigators also visited this week, has also opened a similar scholarship program to applicants of all races.

Their decisions are part of a national movement away from the affirmative-action programs that helped ease black students' entry into higher education after the era of educational segregation."

SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, segregation no longer black and white: "Orfield is concerned that no national policies specifically address Hispanic school segregation. He suggested another court case like Brown may be necessary to call attention to the issue.

'Nobody is talking about it,' he said. 'We need another movement. We need a Brown that addresses a multiracial reality.'

In Pajaro Valley, two schools provide a glimpse of the differences within the district and how wide the gap between Hispanics and whites can be. "