VIA: WUSA9.com Singer, actor and activist John Legend recently visited Howard University in Washington, DC. During his visit Legend spoke with students, urging them to become teachers. Legend told the students that education was the civil rights movement of his generation. The Grammy-award winning singer, who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, says too many […]
VIA NEW YORK TIMES A new report to be released on Tuesday show that black student’ proficiency in core subjects is worse than people realize. According to the study, only 12 percent of black fourth-grade boys are proficient in reading, compared with 38 percent of white boys, and only 12 percent of black eighth-grade boys […]
Vote here and learn more. Goals • Personal and community-based goal-setting through simulated labs • Develop personal action plans upon graduation from Kappa Kamp • Learn how to collaboratively strengthen communities through service • Provide opportunities for utilization of skills learned in Kappa Kamp • Complete a community service project within a year of graduation […]
Two years after its cancellation, “The Wire” has been given the respect given to authors like Dickens and Shakespeare, Hemingway or Langston Hughes. It has been given its own class at Harvard. Not only has it been given an undergraduate class at Harvard, but in this spring, “The Wire” will be taught at Harvard Law […]
Detroit Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy is playing no games with parents who refuse to show interest in their children’s education. She is pushing for a law that calls for jail time for parents who skip parent-teacher conferences. Yes. Jail time. Worthy pitched her plan Tuesday to the Detroit City Council and is shopping it […]
VIA RADIO ONE DETROIT We’re constantly bombarded by stories about the challenges facing Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System. Sometimes the obstacles to guaranteeing every child a quality education seem insurmountable. Overwhelmed school systems are a problem facing the entire country. ‘Meet The Press’ – NBC’s devoted a week-long focus to the Nation’s Education system. “Education Nation” takes […]
President Obama is once again drawing heat from one of his new steps towards change. This time, he is aiming for a change in America’s college education system. Obama is making moves in encouraging people to choose to attend community college as opposed to a 4 year University. What It Means To Be Black, Beautiful […]
‘Meet The Press’ – NBC’s devoted a week-long focus to the Nation’s Education system. “Education Nation” takes an in-depth look at reforming our education system. What’s at the heart of the problem in our nation’s public schools? What reforms are working and how can those solutions be part of a national model? An exclusive conversation […]
VIA: CitizenSchools.com Children spend just 20 percent of their waking hours in school. But a child’s capacity to learn doesn’t end with the final bell. After-school programs can do so much more than what we so often expect of them—just keeping kids off the street—and make real impact on their education. Citizen Schools realizes this […]
Piss poor parents better beware. Prosecutor Kym Worthy of Detroit has a new proposal she is putting to gether which will attempt to make parents be more accountable for their children’s behavior as well as make them have more
Author Stewart Buck has a new book, “Acting White: The Ironic Legacy Of Desegregation” in which he claims that integration has had a negative affect on African-American education. Richard Thompson Ford at Slate wrote this about the book: It was desegregation that destroyed thriving black schools where black faculty were role models and nurtured excellence […]
TJMS correspondent Jeff Johnson speaks on education and history or African Americans as it relates to our current state.
