Another reason why schools need to be held accountable

I’m a born and bred Northeasterner. So naturally anytime I see interesting news going on in the Delaware Valley (New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware) my attention pulls to that direction. This case (which took place in Allentown, PA) made me VERY angry.
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Central Elementary School’s teachers and administrators, parents say, knew they had [...]

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If you build it, will they come?

I read the following in the Huffington Post this morning:
In Newark and New Orleans, the level of violence is rising as a result of the war here at home. Record numbers of people are being killed on the streets of these cities. One reason often attributed to the violence is drug killings. The most common [...]

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Question: Do Blacks have to work twice as hard to be successful?

This is a question that came to mind as I was driving yesterday afternoon. Most of our parents told us that working double time was the path that all of us had to take if we wanted success in our field of choice.
Do you find yourself working twice as hard as your White counterparts?

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Take part in the oral history tour

(AP) WASHINGTON – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced a project Wednesday that hopes to record at least 1,500 oral histories from black families over the next year.
The recordings are to be placed at the Library of Congress and in the archives of the Smithsonian Institution’s future National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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The [...]

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