One day in March, pranksters turned the cafeteria at Robert E. Lee High School in Fairfax County into a maelstrom of hurled milk cartons and leftover lunch. Close to 100 teenagers joined the melee, flinging sandwiches and water bottles. Hundreds of others, caught in the crossfire, scr... Read more...
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19/01/2012,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Do The Knowledge,
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There is no longer a need for dire predictions, hand-wringing, or apprehension about losing a generation of black boys. It is too late. In education, employment, economics, incarceration, health, housing, and parenting, we have lost a generation of young black men. The question that remains is will... Read more...
It's a nationwide problem, the shortage of black male teachers. Only two-percent of the nation's nearly five million teachers are African American. Twenty-eight-year-old Craig King has taught third grade at Whittaker Elementary School for six years. His students say there's never a dull moment in M... Read more...
According to new data released by the NYPD [click here], an average of one student is arrested every day in the city's school system, and three others are issued summonses. During summer school from July through September, four students each day are arrested, and 94% of those arrested are black or L... Read more...
Black and Hispanic students are far more likely to be kicked out of school when they break the rules, including some that often have nothing to do with keeping students safe, according to a new report from a civil rights research and advocacy group. And school discipline records are t... Read more...
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27/12/2011,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Politics As Usual,
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Perhaps no research finding has influenced education policy more, or been subject to greater misinterpretation, than our ranking on international mathematics and science tests. Previous critiques of international comparisons have focused largely on flaws in sampling and the limitations of test ... Read more...
The literal meaning of the Sinhalese term 'degurun' is: 'the two teachers'. It actually refers to the two parents of a child. The Sanskrit-derived 'poorwachareen' has the meaning 'the first teachers', and is also a term for 'parents'. The existence of these terms signifies the importance that our ... Read more...
The majority of school teachers recently laid off by the Chicago Board of Education are people of color, and hardest hit are African teachers in schools serving African American students, according to a new analysis released today by the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). An analysis of Chicago Public S... Read more...
At 14, Shawn Turner-McGee is a convicted felon, arrested last spring for pushing his teacher and grabbing her arms. He said it was a misunderstanding, one that he wrote a written apology for and served probation. Last month, Greco Middle School officials suspended the seventh... Read more...