Seeing potential and talent where others see misbehavior and disrespect
During a recent site visit to our Mississippi Leadership Academy, I had the good fortune of meeting 5 year Kaiden Johnson...
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California Introduces New Legislation to Support Education and Career Pathways
California State Senate has introduced new legislation that will provide more career-oriented curriculum and training for California students by enhancing the...
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New Report Analyzes Mayoral Control of School Systems
The Center for American Progress (CAP) has a released a new report, "Mayoral Governance and Student Achievement: How Mayor-Led Districts Are Improving...
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There goes our Young, Gifted and Literate
Imagine with me for a minute that every high school graduating class from this point forward has all young men...
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Running a Three-Legged Race with Poverty
A solid education that prepares a student for college and careers makes a huge life difference for a boy of...
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Equity and Excellence Commission Makes Recommendations to Secretary Arne Duncan
On February 19, 2013, the Equity and Excellence Commission publicly released its report, "For Each and Every Child: A Strategy...
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NCEBC Talk Radio interviews Ron Walker, from Monday, Feb 11, 2013, at 10am EST
Tune in to NCEBCTalkRadio to hear COSEBOC Executive Director Mr. Ron Walker answer these questions. He will interviewed by NCEBCTalkRadio...
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COSEBOC will not push the Mute button
Why are we mute? This was the powerful essential question that Harry Belafonte asked as he received the prestigious Spingarn...
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Bullying Resources Available in Spanish
StopBullying.gov, an initiative of the US Department of Education's Office of Safe and Healthy Students, has launched a new Spanish...
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The Expanded Success Initiative School Design Fellowship
The Expanded Success Initiative School Design Fellowship will design and launch a breakthrough high school model whose outcomes are measured by...
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Quality Counts 2013 Focuses on School Climate and Discipline
On January 10, 2013, Education Week released its annual Quality Counts publication. This year’s report, Quality Counts 2013: Code of Conduct—Safety,...
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Professional Athletes Wellness Group
In the past week we have been exposed to yet two more tragic incidents in the world of professional sports....
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Successful School Practices
I’ve just finished three different pieces that include lists of successful practices of inner city schools. The first is a...
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Hip Hop Professor joins with Hip Hop Star
I've always been a bit wary of bringing the street into the classroom; not because I thought it was a...
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Rethinking School Discipline
On November 6, 2012, Education Week featured an article entitled, "Suspended in School: Punished But Still Learning" to highlight schools...
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From Alfred Tatum on Literacy
(Re) Authorizing Literacy Practices for African American Boys by Alfred W. Tatum, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Chicago The education...
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How Black Boys with Disabilities End Up in Honors Classes – While Others without Disabilities End Up in Special Education
Ivory A. Toldson, Ph.D. “Among the nearly 40,000 black male 9th graders currently in honors classes, 2.5% have been told...
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President Obama’s Executive Order on White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans
It’s interesting what makes news or what makes an event news. If it’s not picked up the main stream presss...
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Noguera on Single-Sex Schools and Schools that Succeed
Pedro Noguera, Director of New York University’s Metropolitan Center for Urban Education in a recent opinion piece for Ed Week and...
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