Inside Look
We Have to Get Real about the Achievement Gap between Black and White Students
By Nate Davis, CEO and Board of Directors Chairman, K12 Inc. Our nation’s graduation rate is at an all-time high. The national figure shows 84 percent of young people, overall, graduating from high school within four years after first entering the 9th grade, a trend that has been on a consistent upswing since the 2010-2011…
Read MoreArtist Christopher “kolpeace” Johnson Raising Funds and Taking Requests to Further His Blossoming Career Through Grad School
By Damion Smalls Christopher Johnson is a real one. Whether it’s being showcased at the 2018 North Charleston Arts Fest, wowing crowds with live artistic performances around the nation, or motivating the youth with his words of encouragement and reflection, Johnson has seen his profile rise tremendously in recent years. This fall, the artist widely…
Read MoreNNPA, New Journal and Guide Host National Black Parents’ Town Hall in Norfolk
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Contributor The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) recently hosted its second National Black Parents’ Town Hall Meeting on Educational Excellence at the Gethsemane Community Fellowship Church in Norfolk, Va. The event, which was livestreamed on Facebook and jointly hosted across the country in Los Angeles, kicked off the NNPA’s…
Read MoreEfforts To Save Long Point Schoolhouse A Moving Experience
By Barney Blakeney June 15, residents of the Snowden community and others took a nostalgic walk through Long Point Road School at its original location for the last time. Sometime over the next 30 days the building where children from that community attended school until 1953 will be moved to the site of the Snowden…
Read MoreWomen’s Group Plead For Clemency For Sudanese Teen Sentenced To Hang
A Sudanese court has upheld a judgment of execution for a teenage girl who fought off the forcible sexual advances of her arranged-marriage husband, leading to his death. Noura Hussein has been imprisoned in Omdurman, Sudan, since the murder of the man she was forced to marry, who she says raped her as his relatives…
Read MoreFirst Ever Education Town Hall for Lowcountry Set for May 22
The first ever Lowcountry town hall devoted to education will take place Tuesday, May 22nd from 6pm to 8pm at the ILA (Conference Hall) on Morrison Drive. The Quality Education Project, in association with the South Carolina Education Association (SCEA) and the National Education Association (NEA) are organizing this event that will include a panel…
Read MoreBlack Millennials Say Student Loan Debt Crippling Their Chances to Advance to Higher Education
By Jasmine Hardy Special from Howard University News Service (TriceEdneyWire.com) – When Danielle Douglas began her career after graduating with a bachelor’s degree from Howard University, things were tough. “I was living paycheck to paycheck, just breaking even,” said Douglas, 27, who began working immediately after graduation at Meridian Charter Public School in Washington. “At…
Read MoreA Call For Justice For African Children
Children are very much on the political and public agenda across Africa today. The African Union has adopted a charter to protect them and a mechanism to hold governments accountable for the fulfillment of their rights. Even so, the reality on the ground is somber and sobering. The number of child prisoners continent wide is…
Read MoreBlack Educators Share Success Stories at the 2018 National Title I Conference in Philadelphia
By Lynette Monroe, Program Assistant, NNPA ESSA Public Awareness Campaign Salome Thomas-EL, a charter school principal and award-winning national education expert, captivated an audience of over 500 educators with his keynote address on overcoming barriers to success at the 2018 National Title I Conference in Philadelphia, Penn. Title I schools are characterized by the additional…
Read MoreA Heroine Honored: Barbara Johns Day in Virginia Honored Student Activist Who Helped Dismantle Public School Segregation
By Saraya Wintersmith Special from the Richmond Free Press (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Today’s students need to continue to speak out when they see injustice. That was the message from Joan Johns Cobbs, the younger sister of the late Barbara Johns, and Mrs. Cobbs’ classmate, Joy Cabarrus Speakes, as Virginia prepared to celebrate the first Barbara Johns Day…
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