For historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), engagement is not an enhancement of their curriculum but part of their birthright. Founded in the Civil War/Reconstruction era, HBCUs had as their core mission educating freed slaves and other free black people to participate in the economy. Later, during the Jim Crow era, HBCUs educated…

As slavery ended, Black Georgians developed unique solutions to the many problems they faced in attaining literacy and other educational goals. In terms of some of their earlier efforts, we describe a pattern in which local Black communities in Georgia sought to create and fund their own schools at primary, secondary, and post-secondary levels. In…

This study investigated the predictive validity of the Descriptive Tests of Mathematical Skills (DTMS) and the SAT-Mathematics (SAT-M) tests as placement tools for entering students in a small, liberal arts, historically black institution (HBI) using regression analysis. The placement schema is four-tiered: for a remedial algebra course, college…

The "Educational Directory" is released in four parts as rapidly as the data become available. This bulletin, the third part of the 1935 educational directory published by the Office of Education, focuses on colleges and universities, including all institutions of higher education. Institutions are classified according to their offerings into six…

Part 1 of the education directories for 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, and 1935 lists U.S. Department of Interior Office of Education officials, principal state school officers, county and other local superintendents, city public-school business managers, and Catholic parochial school superintendents. Part 2 lists by state accredited institutions of…