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A week after closing 50 Chicago public schools, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is touting an increased high school graduation rate as a sign that “we are pointed in the right direction, making the right decisions for our children.”

A group of Rochelle, Georgia students are attempting to organize the first integrated prom at their school. And they’re being met with resistance; signs promoting the idea have been torn down, and the school is refusing to fund the event.

We are compelled to wonder if Hadiya’s death might have been prevented if she and her fellow classmates had been allowed to stay inside the school after the final bell. How can we help school’s protect students?

The Pentagon has officially lifted the ban on female service members in combat.

Although he was handcuffed, searched, and then put in the back of a patrol car, police and student officials are claiming that a Houston-area high school student was rushed to the hospital after shooting himself.

15 year-old Felicia Garcia jumped to her death in front of over 200 of her classmates after weeks of bullying. Her final tweet said simply: “I cant, im done, I give up”

Last week, after I had finally purged all I had to say about Frank Ocean’s letter into a post, I once again returned to reading some of the responses that had been sent to me in the time since Ocean published his Tumblr post. Most of them did as I had lamented in my piece. […]

AN EQUATION FOR DISASTER: Black Youth + Poverty – Jobs = Screwed By Deven D. Anderson, Black Youth Vote! Deven D. Anderson is surrounded by civil rights leaders Wade Henderson (right) and Jesse Jackson as he represents black youth during a recent press conference in DC Washington, DC – It is a critical time in […]

College board: Minorities lag in AP test performance Tara Malone, Chicago Tribune | February 9, 2011 Whether enrolled in statistics or Spanish, a record number of Illinois high school seniors took college-level courses last year, but the percentage who passed the grueling end-of-term exams remained divided along racial lines, according to a report released Wednesday. […]

In life everything comes to an end. (Well most things, poverty is staying pretty consistent on us). But for the most part, things come to an end, eventually. I for one never thought my senior year of high school would end, as the sickness of senioritis went into full fruition at the end of my […]

Part of the reason I’m so unproductive during the first quarter of the year is because of sports.  The NFL Playoffs are quickly followed by March Madness, which is followed by the NBA Playoffs.  I do most of my work during the summer when baseball season is well underway.  Watching nine innings of baseball on […]