The Black-White achievement gap is alive and well in the United States. Take New York City as an example. According to a recent article in the New York Times, in the city’s 3rd-8th grades, 40% of black students met state standards in the 2010 math tests. This is compared with 75% of white studen... Read more...
It is nearly impossible to read the headlines these days without asking if the reality we find ourselves living in is the real world or some crazy mad scientist’s fantasy land. From the world’s first genetically modified designer babies, to accusations of genetically enhanced athletes compe... Read more...
After murders in Black communites, reading and math scores for Black students go down he Black-White achievement gap is alive and well in the United States. Take New York City as an example. According to a recent article in the New York Times, in the city’s 3rd-8th grades, 40% of... Read more...
For more than a decade, anthropologists and historians pieced together the history of a short-lived African-American community that was snuffed out in the 1850s by the creation of Central Park. They combed vital records and tax documents, scanned parkland using radar and studied soil borings. But... Read more...
I got this email from a colleague the Tuesday after Memorial Day: “Can’t come in today. Stomach bug.” I’m no detective but—with barbeque season officially starting the day before—a prime suspect immediately jumped to mind: the norovirus, the most common cause of food poisoning in the ... Read more...
He calls it the UnCollege movement. Nineteen-year-old Dale Stephens is urging his peers to rethink the need for college, arguing that they can get more out of pursuing real-world skills than completing homework assignments and studying for exams. "I want to change the notion that a college... Read more...
James Weldon Johnson was author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist. Johnson is remembered best for his leadership within the NAACP, as well as for his writing, which includes novels, poems, and collections of ... Read more...
WTF? Is this some kind of joke? Oh so because the great pimp MLK Jr was wrong about assimilation integration (which if I had been alive at that time I could've told you that) and how positive it would be, now you want to take a step further (or should I say a step 40 years backwards) and se... Read more...
The dispute was about ancient history. But the tactics someone used to cast aspersions on a prominent Judaic studies scholar couldn't have been more modern. New York University professor Lawrence Schiffman's students and colleagues started getting panicked and confessional e-mails, in his name,... Read more...