Sen. Tim Scott, Dr. Steve Perry and other “NewsOne Now” panelists take on the hot-button issue of the role of charter schools in the education…
Author Kwame Alexander knows the importance of reading comprehension, but he also knows how important it is to relate to children. Alexander founded Book in a…
Some school districts are moving away from their zero tolerance policies in discipline because they aren’t effective. High dropout and arrest rates, combined with low…
Via Foxbaltimore.com A Baltimore City School Employee is being brought up on sex charges after prosecutors say he got a 15-year old student pregnant. Shaw Nowlin, was a hall monitor at Hazelwood Elementary/ Middle school. Parents of students are outraged and want more answers. Read More. NewsOne Looks Back On the Most Unbelievable Crimes Of 2012 Black Community […]
Via Foxbaltimore.com Frederick County schools are getting a visit this week from the U.S. Agriculture Department for National School Lunch Week. National School Lunch Week brings awareness to school lunches that are served to millions of students. It’s important to know what yor kids are eating at lunch. Read More. REPORT CARD: Baltimore Water Quaulity […]
Via Foxbaltimore.com Owings Mills High School received a gun scare when a student brought a B.B. gun to school. This frightening event occurred a little over one month after the Perry Hall shooting in Baltimore County.Students and Faculty went into a panic once they realized the code red was not a drill. Read More. Developing […]
In an effort to pass Florida’s new “Pull Your Pants Up” law, State Senator Gary Siplin showed up to Orlando schools on the first day of classes to hand belts to students whose pants sagged. “We want our kids to believe they’re going to college, and part of that is an attitude, and part of that […]
ATLANTA – Three middle school students were suspended or expelled from Chapel Hill Middle School for writing that their teacher was a rapist, a pedophile and was bi-polar. Also read: TOP 9 MUSIC VIDEOS OF THE 1990s The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports:
Nation (TheRoot)– The Root has a good article on the recent news on the disparity between the education levels on Black and white children and how to stop it: Back then, in the early ’70s, Siegfried Engelmann led a government-sponsored investigation called Project Follow Through. It compared nine teaching methods and tracked their results among […]
Crystal Simmons, the principal for Academy for Social Action in New York City, is facing being fired after it was revealed that she had an affair with her assistant principal, Candy Jones. The New York Daily News reports: Crystal Simmons, founding principal of the Academy for Social Action, turned to officials for help after her […]
