About a week ago, I had initially been excited when Chicago’s downtown was aglow with a flush of red T-shirts as the district’s teachers went on strike again for the first time in 25 years. Finally, it had seemed that public education’s core issues had been launched onto the national stage. Questions pertaining to teacher […]
Since going on strike last Monday, the CTU has been accused of selfishness, pettiness, and “hurting the children.” One Chicago educator wants to set the record straight. Do you support the CTU?
Classes are not in session today in Chicago, as the Chicago Teacher’s Union has officially gone on strike.
A former fifth-grade teacher embroiled in Atlanta’s ongoing widespread cheating scandal allegedly admitted to helping the students cheat because they were ‘dumb as hell.”
Kelly Dempsey, Persley’s white teacher, told Brea to “sit your nappy-headed self down,” eliciting howls of laughter from her classmates. Her mother complained to administrators. The principal’s response? Expel Brea?!
A recent educational study found that Black and Latino students often receive less critical, overly positive feedback from teachers. By not giving minority students the contstructive criticism they need and deserve, these teachers are stifling their intellectual growth.
Reports cards came out this week for students that I work with. I can remember being in elementary school scared to see what I knew were grades that my parents would not approve of. Report card pick up days were even scarier. These particular days were marked as the time of year when parents had […]
African American teacher Brooke Harris was fired from her position at a middle school in Michigan after supporting her students’ efforts to express support for Trayvon Martin. Many are now calling for her reinstatement. What kind of message does firing Ms. Harris send to her students?
A Virginia High School teacher is under fire for asking the only Black student in her English class to read a Langston Hughes poem “blacker;” exclaiming “Blacker, Jordan – c’mon, blacker. I thought you were black.”
A white school teacher Lincoln Brown is suing Chicago Public Schools after he was suspended for using the n-word in front of his sixth grade class, claiming he was simply engage his students on the history and implications of the word. Was he in the wrong? Sound off below!
A Kansas City High School Basketball coach has been suspended from his position after being caught on tape calling a Black student a “future welfare recipient.” Read more at BlackYouthProject.com!
The Grio | July 11, 2011 Amirah Tavares recently graduated from high school with plans of going to college and a new knowledge her former teacher’s ‘help’ was actually cheating.
