In Mississippi, ‘ Extreme Discipline ’ Targets Minority US School Kids: Report Civil rights groups in the United States released a report Thursday claiming that harsh punishments at schools across Mississippi have led to a disproportionate number of minority students being suspended, expelled... Read more...
Education is the cornerstone of success. Those who are educated have more opportunity, tend to make better choices, and will go on to teach their children to do likewise. Those who are educated tend to give back to their community more than they take from it. With that being said, what can we surmi... Read more...
The vast majority of CPS middle school and high school students have access to the Internet, but only half of them regularly use it to do academic work. That is one of the more unexpected findings of a Consortium on Chicago School Research study on technology use among CPS students, released to... Read more...
“Give it the ol’ college try.” We’ve all heard it. Whether from a coach, a parent or other authority figure, the phrase is often used as encouragement when one is faced with a seemingly insurmountable task. It instructs us to pull ourselves up by the bootstraps and do our best, even in th... Read more...
A comedy that follows two high school students -- one overachiever struggling to write his valedictorian speech, the other a senior now going on his 15th year of school. Director: Dylan C. Brown Writers: Jamieson Stern (screenplay), Herschel Faber(screenplay) Stars: Snoop D... Read more...
The City of Philadelphia municipal government, through the Philadelphia Youth Network's WorkReady Summer Internship program, will be hiring 100 Philadelphia high school students for our 2012 "Summer in the City" High School internship! The internship is a 6-week paid, summer opportunity within vari... Read more...