Education
Band mates say FAMU victim volunteered to be hazed
Robert Champion was known for his opposition to the hazing rampant in the Florida A&M University marching band, but he was vying to be lead drum major and wanted the respect he could earn by enduring a brutal ritual known as “crossing over.” With chances for initiation ending with the football season, fellow band members [...]
Increase In Loan Interest Rates Defers Black Students’ Dreams
The recent efforts to protect students from facing interest rates on their student loans estimated to double by July 1, 2012, is critical to ensuring that the next generation of college students is financially able to contribute to our economy as opposed to becoming victim of its financial debt and distress. With Black unemployment at [...]
Making Schools Work
Amid the ceaseless and cacophonous debates about how to close the achievement gap, we’ve turned away from one tool that has been shown to work: school desegregation. That strategy, ushered in by the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, has been unceremoniously ushered out, an artifact in the museum of [...]
Education Plays Mitigating Role in Escaping Roots of Adversity
Decades of research show people born into poverty are likely to continue to live that way as adults. But one University of Georgia researcher has found a way out-education. Children reared in disadvantaged communities and poor families earn less money and experience more health problems as adults than do children raised without adversity, according to [...]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Media’s ‘Dangerous Lessons’ Trick Children to Pursue Rap, Ignore School
After a storied career as the NBA’s leading scorer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is taking a different path as an author and advocate for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education. His new children’s book, What Color Is My World? The Lost History of African-American Inventors, tells the tales of people who were leaders in their fields [...]
