Monthly Archives: June 2011

The Educational Crisis of Young Men of Color

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Director of Harvard's W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research, and Gaston Caperton, President of the College Board, have written an essay in today's Huffington Post and theRoot.com calling for national focus on educating young Black men. You can read it here. Gates and Caperton co-hosted a webcast discussion of this topic today [...]

The High (Hidden) Costs of Private School

"Push for A's at Private School is Keeping Costly Tutors Busy", an article in today's New York Times, details the extensive and expensive tutoring underground in NYC private schools. According to this article, which can be found here, over half of the students in NYC private schools hire tutors during the course of their K-12 years. The article highlights [...]

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Education Issues in the News–Update

Here's an update to our latest post:  In today's NY Daily News, Stanley Crouch weighs in on the NAACP involvement in the NYC DOE suit with "The NAACP Enters an Unholy Alliance: It's Fighting Charter Schools Rather Than Supporting Them", found here.  Let's hear what you think about this issue...

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Education Issues in the News

Education issues abound in the news these days, and we'd like to hear what you think about them: The battle over the best course for school reform went into high gear in the black community on May 18th, when the NAACP joined with the United Federation of Teachers to file a lawsuit against the New York City Department of [...]

By |2023-05-21T15:52:05-04:00June 5th, 2011|Entertainment, Parents|Comments Off on Education Issues in the News
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