Category: African American Education

  —  Mary Louise Kelly, NPR, WAMU 88.5 With millions of kids still learning remotely, the learning losses are piling up. Some school districts are reporting a higher level of failing grades this fall. A report from the consultant McKinsey & Company estimated that students were three months behind in math when they started the school year. And another […]

Morgan Freeman starred as Clark in the 1989 film that was loosely based on his tenure at Eastside High School.   — AP, HuffPost GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Joe Louis Clark, the baseball bat and bullhorn-wielding principal whose unwavering commitment to his students and uncompromising disciplinary methods inspired the 1989 film “Lean on Me,” died at […]

  — NORAH O’DONNELL, CBS News   For West Point Cadets Evan Walker and Tyrese Bender, the road to becoming Rhodes Scholars was paved with hard work and commitment to school, sports, and integrity — but that didn’t stop them from questioning whether they had actually won the prestigious award. “I was in shock,” Walker told CBS News. […]

A federal appeals court has affirmed that Mississippi parents may pursue a school funding lawsuit   — Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press, ABC JACKSON, Miss. — A federal appeals court has affirmed that Mississippi parents may pursue a lawsuit that says the state allows grave disparities in funding between predominantly Black and predominantly white schools. […]

  — L. Malik Anderson, Madison 365 Earlier this month, Isabel Perea Martinez was named the new School Wellness and Improvement Manager at One City Schools, where she will lead the operations for the school’s on-site COVID (RT-LAMP) testing program while developing a plan for student’s overall health.  “My role will be to develop, direct […]

  — Derek Major, Black Enterprise Ten Black Americans were among the 32 men and women selected as U.S. Rhodes Scholars and will conduct post-graduate studies at Oxford University. The 10 Black Americans chosen for the honor ties the 2017 record for the most Black Americans selected. Elliot F. Gerson, the American secretary of the Rhodes […]

The writer on Black British culture discusses his feelings about the future of race relations and his friendship with Steve McQueen — SEAN O’HAGAN, THE GUARDIAN Paul Gilroy is a writer and academic specialising in Black British culture. His books include There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack (1987), Small Acts (1993), The Black Atlantic (1993) and After Empire (2004). He […]

— LAUREN LUMPKIN, THE WASHINGTON POST Howard University has received a $1 million gift to open a center devoted to producing gender-based research and promoting Black female leaders, officials announced Thursday. The Center for Women, Gender and Global Leadership will be one of a handful of academic centers nationwide designed to amplify Black and minority […]