School
Candace Owens is back in the headlines this week, and this for criticizing academic disciplines that over little value to society.
A small historically Black college in South Carolina is offering all full-time students free tuition for the upcoming 2021-22 academic year.
Morgan Freeman and University of Mississippi Professor Linda Keena donated $1 million to the school to launch a legal studies center that focuses on policing.
Award-winning artist and producer Pharrell Williams announced that he will be opening multiple private schools in Virginia.
Administration officials at West Point Consolidated School District located in West Point, are currently being dragged over allegations of racism and white privilege after two Black teens were forced to share the titles with two white students.
The assignment led to a recently-dismissed lawsuit from the family of a Black student with autism, but it's a bit of a slippery slope when determining if it was a fair decision to throw out the case.
NEW YORK (AP) — Jay-Z’s Roc Nation entertainment company is partnering with Brooklyn’s Long Island University to launch the Roc Nation School of Music, Sports & Entertainment. The new school will begin enrolling students for the fall 2021 semester, and 25% of the incoming freshmen class will receive Roc Nation Hope Scholarships. Hope Scholars will […]
The Supreme Court of Jamaica has ruled in favor of a school that demanded a student cut her dreadlocks over "hygiene" reasons in order to attend classes.
What You Need To Know: “Instead of going to school every morning, what if school could come to you?” oozed the woman’s saccharine voice from our TV. Whenever this K – 12 homeschool commercial came on, I’d pounce on the remote, hoping to mute it before my son heard it. Otherwise, I’d have to spend […]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The nation’s two largest teachers unions want schools to revise or eliminate active shooter drills, asserting Tuesday that they can harm students’ mental health and that there are better ways to prepare for the possibility of a school shooting. The American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association joined with the […]
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — The Walt Disney Co. has apologized to a California school that was charged a $250 licensing fee after showing the company’s 2019 remake of “The Lion King” during a fundraiser. Emerson Elementary School in Berkeley was billed by Movie Licensing USA on behalf of Disney for “illegally screening” the film at […]
A Ball State University professor called the police on a Black student after he refused to change seats in class. Now that student, and many others are upset with the school for its response to that professor. The school has reportedly implemented a corrective plan after professor Shaheen Borna, who is white, called university police on […]