By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander will likely become chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Though he has yet...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist In a season focused on gratitude, 17-year-old Monica Chica has an attitude about choosing to be grateful that’s wise far...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” — George Washington Carver In recent weeks, the latest major...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Between early August and late September, students are going back to school. Before they go to school, though, they and their...
MEMPHIS (Politico) — On one side of South Lauderdale Ave. sits the Foote Homes, among the last of the old federal housing projects that once proliferated...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist It’s mid-July. Do you know if your children are learning? Just a month ago they were eager to leave the regimentation...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Despite the cry from people of color for more teachers who look like them, both Whites and...
by Richard B. Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) – When an Ohio judge sentenced Kelley Williams-Bolar to jail for enrolling...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Teachers have always graded students. The Obama administration feels the time has come for someone to...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief AUSTIN, Texas (NNPA) – Former President George W. Bush said the education achievement gap – up to four years at...
KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York state has the most segregated public schools in the nation, with many black and Latino students...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A new collection of research shows that despite the myths surrounding Black student behavior, poverty and severity...
[Time] Loan payments for some 8,000 programs, designed to propel students straight into careers but often landing them in worse debt than high school dropouts, will...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Our past was certainly all about the money. As soon as the Europeans discovered the Americas and determined that...
By Lorretta Johnson Secretary-Treasurer, American Federation of Teachers To those who think that teaching is an 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. job with summers off, try...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Happy New Year! January first and second are the days when most think of the “new” year, yet with the...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist I had an extensive conversation last week with a prominent Republican political operative about next year’s congressional elections. This operative...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A new study suggests that access to “excellent teachers” should be a civil right and that students...
(Reuters) – U.S. college enrollment is declining. That may cause students and their parents to hope tuition costs will go down, but they should not count...
by KIMBERLY HEFLING, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans who passed part, but not all, of the GED test are rushing to finish the high...
By Wendell Hutson Special to the NNPA from the Chicago Crusader After initially saying its long-term plans were not to replace neighborhood schools with charter schools,...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Lately, I have been stressing the importance of preserving the sanctity of the traditional family–mother, father, and children. There is...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett has announced plans to close at least 50 schools as a cost-cutting measure....
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Why does sports play such a prominent role in college education? Does it crowd out the attention we pay to...
