Educators

Roland Martin and NewsOne Now discuss the benefits of Black-owned charter schools.

Educator and author Chris Emdin has some practical advice for teachers who want to more effectively teach and reach Black students and has detailed these practices in his new book, "For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood and the Rest of Y'all too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education."

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Cornell Belcher discusses polling data showing that 72 percent of Black parents favor charter schools.

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The New Orleans School Board’s firing of 7500 employees in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina lacked decency, leadership and integrity. SEE ALSO: CBC Message To America: Some NOLA Homeowners “Still Struggling To Rebuild” 10 Years After Katrina During a time, when most New Orleanians were trying to recapture a semblance of home, the mass firing took a […]

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Renowned journalist Soledad O’Brien joined Roland Martin Monday on NewsOne Now to discuss the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and what has changed since the storm flooded New Orleans in 2005. Ten years after Katrina, “New Orleans is a tale of two cities,” O’Brien said. “If you were to wander around the downtown, the French […]

In Arizona, a charter school has come under heavy criticism for using books that feature questionable religious teachings. The Americans United for Separation of Chuch and State, a nonprofit organization filed a complaint to the state’s school board against Mesa-based Heritage Academy for using books that teach debunked “Christian nation” history and have “sexist, racist […]

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The New Orleans Recovery School District will soon have converted all of the schools under their jurisdiction over to charter schools. Patrick Dobard, superintendent of the Louisiana Recovery School District and education advocate Karren Harper Royal joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” to talk about school choice and the future of the public system in New Orleans. […]

I’ve spent my entire career as a civil rights activist and anti-violence advocate. I hear from folks all over the country about how fed-up they are—how much they want change—but they don’t know where to start. It’s not enough just to be informed, we’ve got to work tirelessly to do better. With the “The Lookout,” I’ll […]

A new report from Penn State law professor Preston Green III called “Chartering Equity: Using Charter School Legislation and Policy to Advance Educational Opportunity,” targets segregation in Charter Schools. According to Green’s reports, Charter Schools are more likely to be dominated by one race than public schools and also lead to segregation in public schools. […]

CHICAGO—A sense of order and decorum prevails at Noble Street College Prep as students move quickly through a hallway adorned with banners from dozens of colleges. Everyone wears a school polo shirt neatly tucked into khaki trousers. There’s plenty of chatter but no jostling, no cellphones and no dawdling. The reason, administrators say, is that […]

CALIFORNIA–A new legislation in the California Assembly may require charter schools to increase their demographic requirements. The legislation, AB 440, is intended to show that charter school demographics are appropriate for the neighborhoods they serve, or in other words, to ensure that the student demographic is more transparent. The legislation would also hold charter schools […]