Jeff Johnson provides five areas of learning for families to dive into over the summer months.
CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Board of Education voted Wednesday to close 50 schools and programs, an ambitious plan that has sparked protests and lawsuits and could help define — for better or worse — Mayor Rahm Emanuel‘s term in office. City officials say the closings are necessary because of falling school enrollment and as […]
Roland Martin talks with Bishop Douglas Miles, co-chair of the BUILD organization and co-founding member about the historic $1 billion investment in Baltimore’s schools.
RICHMOND, Ky. (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama urged Eastern Kentucky University graduates on Saturday night to reach out to people with different political beliefs, saying the country would benefit from the conversations. “If you’re a Democrat, spend some time talking to a Republican,” Mrs. Obama told about 600 education, business and technology graduates at […]
It’s commencement time for many HBCUs. Last week I spoke at Fisk University and Saturday I address the graduates at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. As with all commencement speeches, my goal is to motivate and inspire, something I struggled with this year more than others. I mean, there are always some proud moments that […]
CLARKSDALE, Miss. (AP) — It’s early on a Friday morning, and high school chemistry students in Victoria Dawson’s class are working equations at the board. Dawson is peppering the class of 11 girls and four boys with questions, trying to keep everyone focused as she helps correct mistakes. When a student gets one of the […]
It was the saddest news of the week: three dozen public school educators were indicted in a huge cheating scandal. Included in the indictment are the former superintendent of schools and several high-level administrators and principals. If you haven’t heard about it, they are accused of giving or changing answers on tests after they were […]
Beverly Hall, the former Atlanta public schools superintendent, is a self-serving scam artist who should be jailed for cheating black students out of their rightful education. The children in Hall’s school district deserve better – especially black children who are struggling to learn. It’s unconscionable that a powerful public school administrator like Hall would spend […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Juwanna Guffie was sitting in her fifth-grade classroom taking a standardized test when, authorities say, the teacher came around offering information and asking the students to rewrite their answers. Juwanna rejected the help. “I don’t want your answers, I want to take my own test,” Juwanna told her teacher, according to Fulton […]
SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. (AP) — School board meetings descend into shouting matches. Accusations of racism and anti-Semitism fly. Angry parents turn their backs on board members in a symbolic stand of disrespect. Tension in a suburban New York school district is rooted in an unusual dynamic: The families who send their children to public schools […]
There are a lot of lessons to be learned from the debacle resulting in the changes in the parent PLUS loan program. The problem is that all of a sudden, loans that were easy to acquire are coming under more scrutiny. Poor credit ratings by parents are taken into account and sadly, we all know […]
