Posts Tagged ‘Black Students’
Scripps National Spelling Bee 2021: Zaila Avant-garde becomes first African American winner
A 14-year-old from Harvey, Louisiana, breezed to the championship at the 2121 Scripps National Spelling Bee, becoming the first African American winner and only the second Black champion in the bee’s 96-year history.
Read MoreContest Allows Students to Pitch Ideas on Improving Educational Outcomes for Black Males
The “Design Your Future” contest seeks to improve the educational outcomes of young Black males in Milwaukee. Individual students or student groups may enter proposals. Once five proposals are selected in January, the ideas will be implemented next school year after being developed over the spring and summer.
Read MoreVirginia Military Institute Removes Monument to White Supremacy
A Confederate statue on the campus of one of Virginia’s oldest institutions is finally being removed after Black students spoke out about a campus culture that literally and figuratively worshipped the graven image of white supremacy.
Read MoreBlack male teachers can have a profound impact in the classroom. Unfortunately, they’re a rarity.
The story of Jarvis Ragland and his experiences as a teacher shed light on the importance of black teachers in schools.
Read MoreHow For-Profit Colleges Have Targeted and Taken Advantage of Black Students
Predatory lending by for-profit-colleges target black students resulting in 78% of students with educational loan debts.
Read MoreDesigning Their Own Black Future
Black students in White town are not waiting for the adults to lead them into a new future. They are designing their own.
Read MoreOn a Path to Expand the View of Blackness
Seniors from Yale interview and collect stories of other students, athletes, and family members about blackness in 2018.
Read MoreWhy Music Education is Essential for Underserved Schools
Music education often suffers when budgets shrink, but some argue that it’s critical to build young minds and encourage creativity.
Read MoreBoy’s Near-Hanging Compels Town to Open Discussion on Racism
By Michael Casey, The Grio/Associated Press CLAREMONT, N.H. (AP) — In this struggling mill town in western New Hampshire, racism was never something people talked all that much about. There were people who drove around Claremont with Confederate flag bumper stickers in the mostly white town of 14,000 and some instances of high schoolers using…
Read MoreMich. Teacher Drags Student From Seat After Not Standing For Pledge
Breanna Edwards, The Root Everybody is all about freedom of speech and expression until a black person (hey, Colin Kaepernick; hey, Jemele Hill) decides to exercise his or her right to do so. And in this particular case, a black sixth-grader out of Michigan says he was assaulted by his homeroom teacher all because he…
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