Did your kids moan that winter break was way too short as you got them ready for the first day back in school? They might get their wish of more holiday time off under proposals catching on around the country to lengthen the school year. But there’s a catch: a much shorter summer vacation. Education […]
The school-to-prison pipeline engulfing the Mississippi grade-school system has become so widespread that kids as young as 10 years old, by far the overriding majority of them minorities, are now being jailed for infractions as mundane as wearing the wrong colored socks or not wearing a belt as part of their school uniform. In adhering […]
The school-to-prison pipeline engulfing the Mississippi grade-school system has become so widespread that kids as young as 10 years old, by far the overriding majority of them minorities, are now being jailed for infractions as mundane as wearing the wrong colored socks or not wearing a belt as part of their school uniform. In adhering […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The NAACP is going on the offensive on education, deploying volunteers across the country in its biggest push for a public education overhaul since the nation’s classrooms were ordered desegregated in 1954, the civil rights group said Thursday. The volunteers, who have been trained for the past two years, will lobby at […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Schoolteachers should have to pass a stringent exam — much like the bar exam for lawyers — before being allowed to enter the profession, one of the nation’s largest teachers unions said Monday. The American Federation of Teachers called for a tough new written test to be complimented by stricter entrance requirements […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Open your notebooks and sharpen your pencils. School for thousands of public school students is about to get quite a bit longer. Five states announced Monday that they will add at least 300 hours of learning time to the calendar in some schools starting in 2013. Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and […]
The new education commissioner of the Texas school system’s over 1,200 districts is on record with plans of doing away with a statewide ratings formula that critics and educators alike term as “an all-or-nothing” doctrine that relies far too heavily on such variables as state-mandated tests and general performance. Instead, Michael Williams, the first African-American […]
Leaders of the state of Florida’s public school system are drawing the ire of parents, civil rights group and even other educators over top city officials' controversial decision to institute different proficiency standards for students seemingly purely based on race. Hailed as a “road map” for all public school students and approved by […]
In yet another example of the maliciousness born of the schools-to-prison pipeline movement, new research finds the same delinquent behavior that lands privileged white juveniles under the care of a physician serves as formal indoctrination into the criminal justice system for most black youths. In research dating as far back as 2003 and spanning such […]
Maine isn’t a state that you’d think would have much to offer a brother. Its winters are bitter cold. There’s no hip, urban-style nightlife to be found. And with 94 percent of the population being white – next to Vermont it’s the nation’s whitest state – I imagine many black visitors there would feel like […]
Audie’s dead. Audie Mickens, that is. Name doesn’t ring a bell? Mickens gained his 15 minutes of fame four years ago, when the Home Box Office documentary “Hard Times at Douglass High” was released. Actually, it was more like 15 seconds of infamy. At the time the documentary was made, Douglass, yes, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — With college enrollment growing, student debt has stretched to a record number of U.S. households — nearly 1 in 5 — with the biggest burdens falling on the young and poor. The analysis by the Pew Research Center found that 22.4 million households, or 19 percent, had college debt in 2010. That […]
