Education
PHILADELPHIA — After the recent school cheating scandals in Atlanta, Philadelphia and Washington D.C., The Notebook, an education journal, has spoken to a teacher who admitted to helping students cheat on mandated state standardized tests. This teacher, a middle-aged White woman who grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs, told a story of tangled motivations and […]
An Arkansas high school is making news over their refusal to allow a Black student to rightfully be valedictorian. The student, 18-year-old Kymberly Wimberly, got only a single B in her 4 years at McGehee Secondary School. Her mother, who has now taken the case to federal court, claims that the school board wouldn’t meet […]
Cambridge, Mass. — Educators from around the nation are at Harvard this month learning how to better integrate Black history into their teaching. The program, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College Teachers at the university’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, is dedicated to introducing educators from different disciplines on an […]
HAWAII — While vacationing in Hawaii, former Atlanta Public Schools superintendent Beverly Hall told an Atlanta news crew that she “absolutely knew nothing about the cheating scandal.” Her comments come a week after an investigation revealed widespread cheating among Atlanta teachers who helped students cheat on state standardized tests. In a statement last week, Hall’s […]
Last week, the San Diego Unified School District unveiled its plan to bring Black students up to speed. Its course of action — a $3.5 million effort that incorporates college-preparation, parent workshops and centers, and faculty members that serve as liaisons for families of Black students. The district’s program is one of many springing up […]
WASHINGTON — After Atlanta schools, teachers and principals were investigated for cheating on standardized tests, schools in Washington D.C. and Philadelphia are now being investigated as well. The Huffington Post reports: On Friday, The Philadelphia Public School Notebook, a blog on Philadelphia’s education system, reported that the state had provided it with a 2009 forensics […]
ATLANTA — In light of a brewing cheating scandal in Atlanta, Amirah Tavares said an Atlanta teacher helped her cheat in elementary school. While at the time she thought it was simple “help,” Tavares, who will be attending college, said she now understands the implication of the seemingly harmless assistance. Video Below: The Grio Reports: […]
by Jessica Samakow I always wondered about the slackers in high school. You know, those kids who never turned in their homework on time and wrote two sentences as answers on tests when the question clearly asked for three paragraphs. As I watched them snooze on their desks, I would think to myself, “Hmm, do […]
VIA: The School District of Philadelphia Due to the inclement weather, all School District of Philadelphia schools and administrative offices will be closed on Thursday, January 27. Updated information will also be posted on the District’s Information Hotline at 215-400-INFO (4636).
This Sunday morning at 2 a.m. local time, most residents of the U.S. turned back their clocks an hour marking the conclusion of daylight saving time. What started us on this ritual in the first place? While the Fall temporal transition is often a welcome one — given that one glorious hour of extra sleep […]
(EURWEB) Kym Worthy is the Wayne County, Mi., prosecutor that castrated Kwame Kilpatrick and made him pay heavily for his text messaging scandal that the city is also still paying for. Worthy didn’t get enough attention from the Kilpatrick case though. She’s now going after Detroit’s parents and if she’s successful, you too. She’s now […]
(EURWEB) Like health care, it should be the right of every child to get a free education, but if you’re four years and under that doesn’t apply anymore. Now that Head Start has taken over the pre-school programs in the public school system your child has to qualify financially to be there. And for the […]