More than three-quarters of Illinois high school graduates aren't completely ready for college, based on their ACT scores, state results of the college-admission test released Wednesday show. Only 23 percent of Illinois' 2011 high school graduating class - public and private - met college readine... Read more...
Photos courtesy Oblate Sisters of Providence Archives, Baltimore, Md. - The St. Frances Home for Girls in Normandy, Mo., near St. Louis, was founded by the Oblate Sisters of Providence, an African-American order providing black girls with elementary education and domestic training. Long before the... Read more...
Mumia Abu Jamal: Lydia Barashango - Presente! Lydia Barashango, 64, a nurse and social worker who was the sister of Mumia Abu-Jamal, died Wednesday, Sept. 28, in Maryland of breast cancer. Friends said she had been living in Baltimore. Mrs. Barashango was a strong defender of her brother, the P... Read more...
For 20 years, the Chicago Public Schools have tried it all. High-stakes tests, decentralization, ending social promotion, shuttering failing schools and opening new ones. And through it all, reading scores in the city's weakest elementary schools largely haven't budged, an exhaustive ... Read more...
Who want to rule the world with me? I ask this question because there hasn’t been a powerful African-American leader that captivates audiences since Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm-X, Huey Newton and the list goes on. I know there are people out there thinking, “What about Barack Obama or... Read more...
It wasn't quite the Smackdown in Edgartown, but two leading figures in the national education debate politely collided here Thursday over the causes of failing schools and the best ways to rescue them. Michelle A. Rhee, the former D.C. schools chancellor whose take-no-prisoners stance shook up the ... Read more...
011 ISSUE OF YES! MAGAZINE A white woman with gray hair pulled neatly into a bun raises her hand. She keeps it up, unwavering and rigid, as she waits patiently for her turn to speak. Finally, the microphone is passed to the back of the room, and she leaps to her feet. With an air of despe... Read more...
By: Marc Sims I believe the low-income neighborhood culture, or "the Hood" culture is impeding most African-American children from succeeding in school. This idea hit me when I was giving a career day presentation at a Chicago high school on the Southside. I told the students when my children were... Read more...
After four years of nearly straight-As, Honors and Advanced Placement classes, 18-year-old Kymberly Wimberly achieved the highest GPA at McGehee Secondary School southeast of Little Rock, Ark., according to a court complaint. However, instead of awarding the student for her hard work and dedication... Read more...