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how about you libs asking your black voters to value an education (like Obama did)?

Hey black pastors how about you focus on black on black violence, or blacks low graduation rates and low education, or the drug epidemic, or the fact that black men abandon their children at a higher rate than other races... yeah ga. y marriage should be a big issue... what a fvcking joke...

Not that I am now a stranger, but that I was reared a stranger, because now I feel my «own people» are black and brown and all the people of color, and all those Christian gays and lesbians who struggle for acceptance — all those who know what it means to be discriminated against because of who they are, where they were born, or how much money or education they have.

This event will be a «conversation on issues including voting rights, Black Lives Matter, youth and education, and how leaders can work across public and private sectors to solve society's problems.»

As we celebrate the election of our country's first black president, I can't help but ponder how very few black males are being prepared to successfully complete a college education and assume leadership roles in the fields of business, industry, government, family, and community.

He earned his Ph.D. in Higher Education, Student Affairs, and International Education Policy from the University of Maryland — College Park, where his dissertation research investigated how black male administrators navigate racism in higher eEducation, Student Affairs, and International Education Policy from the University of Maryland — College Park, where his dissertation research investigated how black male administrators navigate racism in higher eEducation Policy from the University of Maryland — College Park, where his dissertation research investigated how black male administrators navigate racism in higher educationeducation.

L&T faculty scholarship covers topics as diverse as «causal reasoning» and the brain; the study of black and Latino family engagement with schools; school reform and teacher leadership; the history of American education; using collaborative data inquiry to improve teaching and learning; and how an understanding of social psychology can improve teaching and learning in the classroom.

We talked to Love about why hip - hop shouldn't be treated as mere entertainment, how civics education can be integrated into curricula to power positive change, and why she doesn't think there's a crisis in black education.

Dr. Min Sun, Assistant Professor in the University of Washington College of Education, shares her recent study on Black teachers» retention and transfer patterns in North Carolina, and how these patterns vary by teacher effectiveness, subjects and school conditions.

Interested in how socially constructed identities are understood in relation to education experiences and outcomes of Black students.

In today's world, Meredith noted how the «black / white gap» is a result of how education policy has long been designed without the inclusion of blacks.

Zella (age 9), who is the daughter of panelist Cary Booker, asked the panel for their insight on how she should navigate her own education: «There are no African American male students in my school and only one Black member of the teaching staff.

The fact that just 23 percent of Black seventh - and eighth - graders in seven states took Algebra 1 (as of 2011 - 2012) is one example of how poor and minority kids lose out on college - preparatory education they deserve.

To know Philadelphia's Black community is to know how thirsty we are for quality education.

Day Three: Motivating Black Males to Achieve in School and in Life — Renowned education expert and veteran principal Baruti Kafele will spend Day Three helping educators better understand how to motivate and inspire black male students to take a greater interest in school and learBlack Males to Achieve in School and in Life — Renowned education expert and veteran principal Baruti Kafele will spend Day Three helping educators better understand how to motivate and inspire black male students to take a greater interest in school and learblack male students to take a greater interest in school and learning.

District officials have talked constantly about how black students in Houston, as in the rest of the country, are more likely to be placed in special education services than white students.

From the embarrassment of approving abysmally low — and Plessy v. Ferguson - like — proficiency targets (including that for Virginia, which had only required districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students and 65 percent of Latino peers were proficient in math by 2016 - 2017), to complaints from House Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Minority Member George Miller and civil rights - based reformers about how the administration allowed states such as South Dakota to count General Education Development certificates in their graduation rate calculations (and minimize graduation rates as a factor in accountability measures), the administration finds itself contending with complaints from civil rights - based reformers as well as from centrist Democrats finally acknowledging the high cost of their push for revamping No Child at any cost.

To suggest that Black families should not have unmitigated access to quality public education shows how far away the NAACP has strayed from its noble inception.

Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions over Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).

We learned about the tumultuous history of education in the United States and how desegregating... Continue reading Black Teacher Leadership Institute Follow - up →

When education reporter Lillian Mongeau wrote a story for The Hechinger Report last month headlined «How to hire more black principals,» she quoted a black principal, a black teacher, a black student and a black CEO, along with a Latina professor and one white man.

Two longtime, award - winning educators seeking to oversee Wisconsin's schools sparred on Friday over how to improve academic success for black students, whether the state's academic standards are good for schools and how the state should spend its money on education.

We learned about the tumultuous history of education in the United States and how desegregating schools led to a dramatic loss of Black Teachers.

LaFonda Willis, former administrator for D.C. Public Schools and education chair for the NAACP D.C. chapter, agreed that the conversation shouldn't have been centered around traditional versus charter but rather how can district and charter schools collaborate «to ensure Black children have access to high - quality education and that we're helping them to achieve achieve self - sufficiency and reach their full potential.»

The same old story emerges in how certain education reformers paint pictures of corrupt, black school boards in urban districts that teach out - of - control students.

As the family and community coordinator for the Office of Black Male Student Achievement (OBMSA), Andria works with parents to understand how important it is to be involved in their children's education from cradle to career.

Wearing a customized black shirt with «Opt - out» in yellow letters, Martinez told the state Board of Education on Wednesday she's so worried about how students will respond the test that she won't let her daughter take it.

Exploring how leaders of all ethnicities can work to advance more diverse leadership across the field of education was a panel of Black, Latino and White leaders who discussed their stories...

Meanwhile, policymakers and education leaders don't need to wait for greater teacher workforce diversity to address the Black - White disparity in gifted assignments, Grissom and Redding wrote, pointing to how special education assignments are currently made, in response to legal challenges.

BILL BLACK: How to prioritize education reforms There is a lot to like in Avis Glaze's report on improving our school system.

Another day, another report outlining how black and latino kids are getting screwed by our education system in the Commonwealth.

, Black Enterprise 2/22/18 - Advocates: Popular CTE Model Will Need Money to Thrive, K - 12 Daily 2/10/18 - Kaine Proposes Grant Program to Boost Job Training, Augusta Free Press 2/8/18 - The Key to Helping Students Graduate Career Ready: Give School Counselors the Tools and Resources to Do Their Jobs, Medium 1/30/18 - Arizona Expands Career And Technical Education, NPR 1/30/18 - Word on the Beat: Career and Technical Education, EWA 1/19/18 - How the Every Student Succeeds Act Can Help Revamp High School Technical Education, AEI 1/2/18 - States Urged to Emphasize Competency Based Learning in the ESSA Era, Education Week

Looking at the issue of gender with a racial lens, this new area of Schott's work — including the ongoing biennial report series on Black Boys educational achievement nationwide — has led school districts across the country to re-examine how they educate and measure the outcomes of the students who are most vulnerable to failure in the education system.

Her research interests center on family, higher education, and race, with a focus on how Black college students engage in a balancing act of academic responsibilities and family obligations.

The results are startling and reveal that teacher pensions are yet another example of how states and districts underinvest in the education of low - income students, and the educations of black and Hispanic students.

Advocacy groups are paying attention to issues related to how states spend special education dollars — and how states determine if black students are disproportionately classified as disabled.

The ChartersWork campaign features a letter from more than 160 African - American education and community leaders urging the NAACP to reconsider and learn more about how charter schools are helping Black families.

For parents — especially black, Latino, and Asian families who are joining the middle class for the first time and moving into suburbia — the importance of knowing how schools actually handle students worst - served by American public education (including low expectations) is critical to doing all they can to keep their youngsters out of the economic and social abyss.

Looking back on my education, it was definitely «white washed» in that we didn't really learn about what the Pilgrims actually did, nor what we actually did in the wild west, or how horribly blacks were treated, or the Japanese, or the Chinese, or even the Irish for that matter.

A story not often covered in history texts, Susan E. Goodman's The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial, illustrated by the great E.B. Lewis, pays tribute to a young black girl and her family's efforts to bring about equal education in the public schools of mid-19th-century America.

Hosted by Lanisa Kitchiner, director of education and scholarly initiatives at the museum, the panel «will explore how they negotiate intention versus impact in creative works, how they navigate the exclusive art world, and how they use black female bodies — particularly their own — to create alternative visions of black womanhood.»

The analyses also included age, race / ethnicity (three binary variables for Black, Hispanic and other ethnicity, coded with Whites as the reference group), gender, household income and parental education, media - viewing habits — hours watching television on a school day and how often the participant viewed movies together with his / her parents — and receptivity to alcohol marketing (based on whether or not the adolescent owned alcohol - branded merchandise at waves 2 — 4).31 Family predictors included perceived inhome availability of alcohol, subject - reported parental alcohol use (assessed at the 16 M survey and assumed to be invariant) and perceptions of authoritative parenting (α = 0.80).32 Other covariates included school performance, extracurricular participation, number of friends who used alcohol, weekly spending money, sensation seeking (4 - wave Cronbach's α range = 0.57 — 0.62) 33 and rebelliousness (0.71 — 0.76).34 All survey items are listed in table S1.

Marie McInerney reported on the symposium in more detail on Croakey with some poignant examples of how children «understand what it means to be black» from a very young age, and shared research that showed tackling racism in schools may improve school attendance and education outcomes.