Students talk about their experience in segregated high schools.
Your browser needs the Flash plug-in to view the presentation. Every Saturday, more than 100 children, many with parents in tow, troop into N.C. Central University's new School of Education building to learn more about reading, math, writing and other skills vital to their success in school. Through the Saturday Academy program, children who have struggled with basics in school receive hours of extra instruction and guidance each week from professional teachers as well as from volunteer tutors and mentors. The effort is one of six across the state, including a program at St. Augustine's College in Raleigh, supported by a state grant to a consortium of historically black colleges. The mission of those programs is to help close the gap in achievement between minority children and white children.