Understanding that time-tested correlation between educational opportunity and future economic empowerment, the National Urban League has developed Project Ready, a signature programming initiative ...

While academic achievement and opportunity gap has led to disappointingly low college enrollment and graduation rates among African-American students, we at the National Urban League have found that ...

More than a year ago, Nancy Dodd began attending Bettendorf's Project Ready alternative high school. Now she's planning a career as a grade school teacher.

This post was written by Marc H. Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League. It is reproduced here with permission. “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the ...