Posts tagged with children

FBI Launches Child ID App To Help Identify and Find Missing Kids

0 comments, 18/10/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in download, iphone, News, program, Technology, World News

Child ID, the first app from the FBI, is a bit late to the party. Using the app, parents can store key information about their children, including height, weight, and even photographs- that can be shown to authorities in the event that their kids go missing. The app also offers advice on what to d... Read more...

Who?!?! – #AmberCole (@Amberr_Cole)

29 comments, 17/10/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in A Truth Moment, program, Rant, Video

Above is a twitpic Amber Cole posted of her report card at 3am October 17th, 2011 By: Spit ( @iamnotarapper58 ) Amber Cole (@DaRealAmberCole), per her twitter account has "Created a twitter to clear my name..." & that she is also "NOT A HOE! I AM JUST YOUR AVERAGE GIRL....... 14..fem... Read more...

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Are Schools Preparing Black Boys …For Prison?

0 comments, 14/10/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Jail, News, World News

A Chicago mother recently filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Board of Education alleging a Chicago Public School security guard handcuffed her young son while he was a student at George Washington Carver Primary School on the city's far south side. In the lawsuit, filed Aug. 29 LaShanda Smith says ... Read more...

No Silver Bullet Solutions For City’s Failing Schools

0 comments, 12/10/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Dont Believe The Hype, News

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...

Local Organizations Determined to Recapture Energy of Million Man March in Philadelphia

1 comment, 07/10/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, Protest/Activism, World News

The Greater Philadelphia Local Organizing Committee will host the 16th Anniversary of the 1995 Million Man March on October 7-9 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, where they hope to "re-energize, refocus and redirect the energy that was experienced and determined that day on the National Mall i... Read more...

SpongeBob Squarepants Is Making Our Children Stupid

0 comments, 05/10/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Health, News, program, TV

Watching fast-paced cartoons like SpongeBob SquarePants leaves young children significantly less able to perform challenging tasks than those who watch more sedate TV, a new American study has found. The American Academy of Paediatrics compared sixty 4-year-old children, split into three groups f... Read more...

Rhee and Ravitch, Leading Schools Figures, Square Off in Martha’s Vineyard

0 comments, 03/10/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in mac, News

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...

Eufaula City School Officials Urge Dads To Get Involved

0 comments, 23/09/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, program

Fathers of Eufaula City School students will have several opportunities to volunteer at their child's school during the 2011-2012 school year. One way is through the "Million Father March." This program, launched by the Chicago-based Black Star Project, encourages fathers to escort their kids to the... Read more...

Education: The Antidote For “The Hood” Culture

0 comments, 22/09/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in General, Movies, Music

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...