RENCA, Chile — Studying hard as a young woman is what prepared Michelle Obama to face the world’s challenges, the United States’ first lady told students Monday at a public school that Chile’s government hopes will become a model for educational excellence in the country. Students in red uniforms cheered enthusiastically and waved Chilean and […]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to rewrite the nation’s governing education law in time for a new school year next fall. It’s an ambitious timeline but one administration official says it is necessary to start closing the achievement gap between American students and their counterparts in China and elsewhere. Also read: […]
Def Jam Rapstar, BET Networks, and the Get Schooled Foundation have collaborated to unveil a nationwide video contest for high school students.
A report from the United Nations indicates that 67 million kids around the world are not attending school. A big portion of that number is the 28 million children that are prevented as a result of armed conflicts.
TEXAS-Texas State is offering a scholarship that is for people of European descent only. The Statesman reports: So Bohannan, a mass communication major and Iraq war veteran, and others formed the Former Majority Association for Equality — a San Marcos-based nonprofit group that is offering five $500 scholarships exclusively to white male students. Bohannan, the […]
TAMPA-Because of his 1.2 GPA, 15-year-old James Mond has been forced by his mother to stand on street corners with a sign that says “Honk If I Need An Education.” Florida mother publicly humiliates son over grades: MyFoxBOSTON.com RELATED STORIES School Sued For Punishing Students Over MySpace Pictures Mom Charged For Picture Of Toddler Duct […]
A recent study revealed that only 12% of African-American boys are on grade level. Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu joins Roland Martin on the Tom Joyner Morning Show to discuss the topic. Dr. Kungjufu details where our education system is failing young African-American males and what can be done to fix the problem. For more information about […]
Roland Martin talks with Dolores Cross former president of Morris Brown College about her book, “Beyond the Wall”. In her new book, Cross attempts to set the record straight about what really happened at Morris Brown. From www.doloresdrc.org Following her departure as president of the college, Dolores Cross became the target of FBI and Grand […]
LANCASTER, PA-McCaskey East High School in Lancaser, Pennslyvania is experimenting with having separate homerooms for African American Students in order to boost African American academic performance. Lancaster Online reports: The idea originated with Angela Tilghman, a McCaskey East instructional coach who was alarmed at the poor academic performance of the school’s black students. Only about […]
Tennessee — Mary Ingles Principal Tracy George asked her young students, patiently sitting Indian style in the school cafeteria, if they knew who was there to see them Wednesday.
California — Before, during and even between classes at Hillbrook School this fall, seventh-graders have been spotted on the Los Gatos, Calif., campus, sometimes burbling Spanish or Mandarin phrases into the glowing screen in their hands, other times staring into it like a looking glass. iPads — the Apple of almost every adolescent’s eye — […]
Texas – Ashley Brown, 16, and Alicia Bonura, 18, both of Beaumont, Texas, died March 29, 2006. They were on a bus carrying their West Brook High School soccer team when it overturned near Devers, Texas, on its way to a playoff game in Humble.
