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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