School Districts Respond to Growing Fury Over Police Shootings, Black Male Achievement Gap
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Michael Walker stood in front of the nine-member Minneapolis school board on a recent snowy night and told them change must come to this Midwestern city, a place where black students are far more likely to be suspended or expelled from school than their white peers, and where educators are struggling to… Read more »
How Tuition Tracker Helps Kids Compare Colleges – and Other Tips for Overwhelmed Parents
New York – It’s the thick of college application season, and your child is diligently churning out common application essays while simultaneously studying for four or five advanced placement exams and researching scholarships, right? Well, maybe not. Click to find out how much college might cost you In households across the U.S. right now, (including… Read more »
Q & A With Author Elizabeth Green: Great Teachers Need ‘Specialized Skills and Knowledge’
In her new book Building a Better Teacher, Chalkbeat CEO Elizabeth Green obsessively explores what good teaching looks and sounds like – and whether the most effective teachers are “born for the blackboard,” in her words. Green’s quest takes her to schools of education and to classrooms in the United States and Japan, where she… Read more »
Next Generation of Activists Confronts Mississippi’s Violent Past on Freedom Summer Anniversary
Philadelphia, Miss. _ Emily Dannenberg stepped off an air-conditioned tour bus into oppressive Mississippi heat. The white Columbia University graduate student had come to this steamy rural town last week with a mission: to mentor both black and white teenagers and help them make sense of their state’s violent and racist past. “I’d always been… Read more »
Q & A with Dick Molpus: Anatomy of Historic Apology for Hometown’s Racist and Violence Past on Eve of Freedom Summer Anniversary
Mississippi’s former Democratic Secretary of State Dick Molpus, born and raised in Neshoba County, stood up 25 years ago at the Mount Zion Church in his hometown of Philadelphia and officially apologized to the families of the three slain civil rights workers murdered when they came to help blacks register to vote. In 1989, some… Read more »
