(ThyBlackMan.com) On average, the cost of college doubles every nine years according to FinAid.org, a comprehensive source of student financial aid information, advice and tools. To combat tuition inflation families have turned to 529 college savings plans, a state sponsored tax advantaged education savings plan that allows account holders to ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Save for college or save for retirement? Torn between parental instincts and the stark realities of retirement planning, more families are having to face this gut wrenching choice. Add the pressures of the current economy that leaves little left-over money lying around, and the decision becomes even tougher. Yet ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I have lived all over the United States and I can tell you each place has its own nuances that make them different. But living in the South, has been an experience like no other. Here I find that many of the people have adopted a regimented lifestyle that they ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I watch the documentary, Waiting for Superman earlier this week and was quite disturbed after watching the film. The documentary depicted the plight of the educational system in America. The title is taken from a comment made by Geoffrey Canada where he shares about his life growing up in ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) After reading an article by Richard Vedder, Why Do We Have HBCU’s?, I came to the conclusions most people really do not see the major impact of some of these great institution of higher learning. HBCU’s produce more black PhD students than other institutions reported by the National Science ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Their History The landmark Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas unanimous Supreme Court decision rendered on May 17, 1954 stated that “separate educational institutions were inherently unequal.”  In 1955, the Supreme Court would hand down another landmark decision, in Griffin v. County School Board of Prince ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) President Barack Obama will call for an overhaul of the No Child Left Behind education law on Monday because of features the administration says actually lower educational standards. The speech is part of a push by Obama to encourage a bipartisan revision of the law that was a hallmark ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Most college students are planning to waste time and money over spring break, partying hard, drinking till they vomit, and doing other things that might get them into trouble. Howard University is encouraging its students to engage in a more enlightened use of its time over spring break, by ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The jobless rate among black college graduates is nearly double that of whites. Why? For years, Americans have been told that going to college was the best protection against unemployment. That hasn’t been the case for African Americans during the Great Recession, with a jobless rate nearly double that ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Never mind a recent New York Times blog citing research that HBCU graduates make less money than other college graduates. As the UNCF’s president and CEO sees it, there’s much value to be found at a black college… To a hammer, goes the saying, the world is a nail. ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) If you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up while I was in the 4th grade, I would’ve answered, “truck driver”. I had no intentions on ever becoming a truck driver, but at nine-years-old, it was the first thing to come to mind. Sure, deep ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I am frustrated. I am caught between a rock and a hard place. I am a black man working in an urban school with kids that have a number of disadvantages. The students that I deal with consist of mainly African American and Latino individuals. I serve my school ...