Each One, Teach One: Mentoring Is A Responsibility For All
Mentorships provide meaningful relationships that have proven to boost the emotional, psychological, social, and academic self-sufficiency in young people.
View ArticleHow To Save Our Boys: A Guide For Parents To Get Involved, Be Involved And...
For boys especially, it is absolutely imperative that you celebrate every academic achievement he has.
View ArticleFamilies “Reverse-Integrating” A Birmingham School
Birmingham's public schools are 95 percent black and 90 percent on free or reduced lunch. The system has been under state control since June and has been hemorrhaging students for decades. And at this...
View ArticleSeparate Still Not Equal
American schools are becoming more segregated. Schools with high numbers of minority students are often inferior to those with mostly white students. In Mississippi, where schools are often either...
View ArticleCharter Schools Offer Opportunity For Some, But Foes Worry Others Will Be...
In this final installment of our Southern Education Desk series on Amendment 1, we examine the demographics of Georgia’s existing charter schools. Their student bodies often don’t mirror those of their...
View ArticleKurdish Community Tries to Bridge Cultural Gap with Schools
The Kurdish center in Nashville is working to bridge the cultural gap between local Kurds and Nashville Public schools, in an effort to bring better understanding and academic success for Kurdish...
View ArticleFederal Judge Halts Louisiana Voucher Program
U.S. District Judge Ivan Lemelle has issued a temporary injunction, prohibiting the State of Louisiana from implementing the voucher program in Tangipahoa Parish because he believes it conflicts with a...
View ArticleSaving Our Boys: Resetting Our Value System
At one point in time, during the days of slavery, Reconstruction, and the Jim Crow era, education was seen as the best means to combat a racist society, to provide for greater economic opportunity, and...
View ArticleMississippi Schools Take Off The Same Day for MLK And Robert E Lee
Schools around the country close in remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But schools in the Deep South are also observing the birthday of Confederate General, Robert E. Lee. Mississippi, Arkansas,...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Historian Robert Corley On Civil Rights, Race, School Segregation...
In this Birmingham's historic Kelly Ingram Park, there's a statue of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. One of the names on the stone pedestal is Robert Corley. Among other things, Dr. Corley teaches history...
View ArticleCarving Up The Elephant: Resegregation In Louisiana
Schools in Louisiana's capital city appear to be resegregating ten years after settlement of a 47-year-long desegregation lawsuit.
View ArticleSegregation Academies: Past, Still Present
In the second installment of our series "Segregation Shifts," the SED's Alabama reporter Dan Carsen goes back in time to examine a strategy whites once used to sidestep public school integration, one...
View Article“Bring Back The White Kids”: A Fight To Integrate In Rural Mississippi
School segregation in Tate County, Mississippi, has spurred debate about the concept of separate but equal. Mainly, whether it’s possible.
View ArticleThe Gradual Shift: When And Why School Districts Re-segregate
Since the 1970s, federal court orders have governed how many Southern communities integrated their public schools. But new research shows, as those orders have been lifted, school districts are...
View ArticleSegregation Shifts – Nashville Wrestles With Re-Segregation
Without court-ordered desegregation, many school districts have struggled to find strategies to maintain racial balance and diversity. Many parents now choose the neighborhood school for their children...
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