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...
Pennsylvania is one step closer to finding out just how much teacher cheating occurred on its 2009 standardized tests as cities nationwide try to make sense of the phenomenon. On Monday, the state reported that it had received 83 percent of districts' internal probes into schools suspected of cheat... Read more...
Below is a letter from Principal Baye Kemit of Egun Omode Shule: Peace and blessings, As Principal of The Garvey School/Egun Omode Shule, a small, private African-centered school in Trenton, NJ, I am writing to ask for your assistance in these times of need. Hurricane Irene made i... Read more...
The number of high-school graduates who took the ACT and met all four of its college-readiness benchmarks has risen for the third year in a row, with the ACT also testing its largest class ever this year. Twenty-five percent of the class of 2011 met the ACT College Readiness Benchmarks in... Read more...
TRIBUTE TO THE MILLION FATHER MARCH By Useni Eugene Perkins We march, we march, we march As men of faith, courage and resolve As men of different hues, religions and creeds To be the fathers we should be We are Fathers, Grand Fathers, Foster Fathers, Step Fathers, God Fathers and Com... Read more...
Their efforts began in North Carolina where they funded an effort to resegregate schools in an award winning school district. Using the same language as Gov. George Wallace in the 60s, Koch-supported school board members attempted to make “segregation always” a policy for tens of thousands of ... Read more...
An overlooked corner of the dropout problem became more visible Thursday when state officials for the first time released the dropout rate for eighth-graders. Statewide, about 3.5% of eighth-graders - 17,257 in all - left school and didn't return for ninth grade, according to the state co... Read more...
Private-Public Partnership Will Invest More than $120 Million in Educational, Employment, and Mentoring Initiatives across the Five Boroughs Building on its long commitment to reverse systemic injustices in the United States, the Open Society Foundations today announced that it is joining a new i... Read more...
"An Ohio mother of two was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on three years probation after sending her kids to a school district in which they did not live. Kelley Williams-Bolar was sentenced by Judge Patricia Cosgrove on Tuesday and will begin serving her sentence immediately. The jury ... Read more...