To say Britney Exline (pictured) is smarter than average is like saying Barack Obama is just another president. It simply isn't true and here's why: Exline recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2011 at the age of 19, making her the youngest engineer to graduate from... Read more...
For more than a generation, policymakers have intensely focused on the achievement gap, the difference between primarily low-income and minority children compared to their peers on standardized tests and other outputs. In doing so, they have neglected the basic truth that achievement follows from ... Read more...
Grantland writer Zach Lowe has a great nugget in his article about Game 6 of the NBA Finals — the Heat are using a tactic that will probably be outlawed by the NBA this summer. Miami is having a ton of problems getting to the basket. So in order to create more space, they're having Ch... Read more...
A new wave of research shows that in disciplining students, out-of-school suspensions don't help. More often, suspensions push students so far behind academically that dropping out becomes increasingly likely. Critics of suspensions, and the zero-tolerance policies that fuel them, advocate f... Read more...
Gabriel Stark released Cocaine Gold last december as a follow up to Gatsby. This was the first single which we actually just discovered ... Read more...
Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now... Read more...
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...
Samsung announced a $5 million partnership with Jay-Z, which will bring the rapper's new album to 1 million Galaxy S4 owners for free when it launches July 4. It's just the latest big marketing move by Samsung, which spends boatloads of money marketing its mobile devices. And it pays off. Sa... Read more...
If the headline caught your eye, here’s more good news. Seven in 10 Latino high school graduates in the class of 2012 went to college, according to a recent report by the Pew Hispanic Center. That’s a record-high college enrollment rate for Latinos, and it’s the first time Latinos have su... Read more...