You may have heard the phrase “parents’ rights.” It sounds unobjectionable — of course parents should have rights — which is probably why it’s become the term of choice for the conservative effort to ban books, censor school curriculums and suppress politically undesirable forms of knowledge. When House Republicans introduced a bill that would require […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Ruby Bridges is escorted by U.S. Federal Marshals into William Frantz elementary school during the second week of the court-ordered integration, New Orleans, Louisiana, on November 28, 1960. | Source: Underwood Archives / Getty It should be abundantly clear by now that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his anti-woke lynch mob (aka […]
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U.S. Deputy Marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, in this November 1960, file photo.Photo: Uncredited (AP) Even though the Disney film “Ruby Bridges” has been shown during Black History Month in Florida’s Pinellas County for years, it was recently pulled because a parent was worried that it would […]
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Indeed, the diversity in the movement can be seen in the nature of labor action these past few months. This week, workers at over 100 Starbucks locations nationwide went on strike to protest the company’s alleged union-busting schemes. Another union representing 30,000 Los Angeles school staff workers—including custodians, cafeteria workers, bus drivers, special education assistants, […]
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Topline Stocks gained yet again Monday as badly bleeding bank stocks bounced back and major indexes continued to recover their March losses. Frowns have subsided on Wall Street in recent days. Getty Images Key Facts The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 270 points, or 0.9%, in early trading, while S&P 500 and tech-heavy Nasdaq climbed […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Gilles Mingasson / Getty Title of course: “Public Education’s Possibilities and Predicaments: Exploring Portrayals of Critical Issues in ‘Abbott Elementary’” What prompted the idea for the course? When the first episodes of “Abbott Elementary” aired in January 2022 and the show began getting widespread praise, I started having interesting conversations with […]
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Meanwhile, Republican Representative Matt Rosendale has been lobbying the FWS to delist the grizzly bear from the endangered species list too—something the FWS is now doing. Similar to the gray wolf, the grizzly bear has only recently begun to spring back, and certainly not to the same extent as before human-caused overhunting and habitat loss. […]
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Topline Deutsche Bank’s stock plunged Friday as the market hones in on the German firm as the next major bank at risk in the wake of long-time rival Credit Suisse’s collapse and similar events stateside. Deutsche Bank’s credit default swap rates soared late Thursday. Getty Images Key Facts Frankfurt-listed shares of Deutsche Bank dropped 11% […]
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It seems that the national conversation surrounding critical race theory won’t end until it’s banned from every school, or they silence everyone that thinks to bring it up. CC Off English On Wednesday, the Temecula Valley Unified School District organized a critical race theory workshop in California. A Black man who shared his thoughts with […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Robert Gauthier / Getty A school district workshop on critical race theory turned chaotic on Wednesday after a Black man was asked to leave for complaining about a woman who allegedly told him, “Get out of the country.” The event, which was organized by Temecula Valley Unified School District in California, […]
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The body of Austin Lyle, a teenager suspected of shooting two school administrators, has been found in a wooded area a county over from where the incident occurred, according to CNN. This was the second shooting on the high school’s grounds within just weeks. CC Off English Wednesday morning, police responded to East High school […]
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Topline Mobile payment giant Block falsely inflated its stock’s value by lying about internal metrics, allowing company insiders including billionaires Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey to profit wildly, according to a bombshell report from activist investing firm Hindenburg Research released Thursday morning. Jack Dorsey’s Block is facing some major allegations from short seller Hindenburg. Getty […]
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Over the years, evidence has piled up suggesting that these kinds of school takeovers are ineffective and that the primacy of standardized tests constrains schools to “teach for the test”—forcing teachers to achieve arbitrary scores to maintain their good standing. Meanwhile, the charter schools pitched as a remedy are often “intensely segregated settings,” according to […]
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Crowder continued with the baton, assuring listeners that he did not think Trump would have wanted violence. “He didn’t word it, maybe, prudently,” Crowder suggested, describing how Trump could have simply said “‘Protest, make your voices heard peacefully,’ which he did, by the way, on January 6.” In the weeks leading up to, and on […]
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For the first time publicly since the incident, Abigail Zwerner speaks about the incident on Jan 6. when her six-year-old student shot and nearly-fatally injured her in class. In an interview with TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie, she said the look on the student’s face behind the gun haunted her to this day. CC Off English What […]
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In 2018, thousands of scientists worldwide worked with the IPCC to warn about the need to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels. The effort was geared toward elucidating what kind of catastrophe threatened ourselves and future generations, and how we could accomplish limiting the damage, if not forestalling […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: WarnerMedia / HBO Max Title of course: “Why Are We Still Talking About Race?” What prompted the idea for the course? I am a huge fan of the animated TV series “The Boondocks,” which aired from 2005 to 2014. The show chronicles, through biting sociological and political commentary, the adventures of […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: FRANCOIS PICARD / Getty When the state of Texas took over Houston’s public school district on March 15, 2023, it made the district one of more than 100 school districts in the nation that have experienced similar state takeovers during the past 30 years. The list includes New York City, Chicago, […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Brazil Photos / Getty Last month, Gallup and Lumina Foundation released the “State of Higher Education: Black Learners” report. It revealed concrete data around an issue I’ve already known to be true: we need to take better care of our Black learners, and that needs to happen now. If we want […]
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Topline Major stock indexes plummeted yet again Friday as investors seemed largely skeptical of a government-backed plan for large banks to save the slumping First Republic bank, which many feared was little more than sticking a Band-Aid on a gash and risking spreading the infection to others. There was not a pot of gold in […]
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And money talks. Hoeven has seemingly expressed little public concern about the rail industry since the East Palestine derailment. In 2021, however, he, Cramer, and Armstrong did send a letter to the Surface Transportation Board advocating for the Canadian Pacific, or CP, and Kansas City Southern, or KCS, merger. As The American Prospect reports, Hoeven […]
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Here’s a thought exercise. Try telling the story of Rosa Parks without talking about race or racism. Challenging, right? Well, that’s the exact dilemma now facing textbook producers hoping to get their books into the Florida public school system. CC Off English Last year, DeSantis signed the Stop W.O.K.E Act, which bans lessons that teach […]
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Here’s a thought exercise. Try telling the story of Rosa Parks without talking about race or racism. Challenging, right? Well, that’s the exact dilemma now facing textbook producers hoping to get their books into the Florida public school system. CC Off English Last year, DeSantis signed the Stop W.O.K.E Act, which bans lessons that teach […]
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And money talks. Hoeven has seemingly expressed little public concern about the rail industry since the East Palestine derailment. In 2021, however, he, Cramer, and Armstrong did send a letter to the Surface Transportation Board advocating for the Canadian Pacific (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS) merger. As The American Prospect reports, Hoeven was rewarded […]
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Photo: Klaus Vedfelt (Getty Images) There’s a heated debate happening around a new course coming to the Carlsbad High School Film Academy. After a March 8 meeting, the Carlsbad Unified School District voted unanimously in favor of introducing a Film Academy Ethnic Studies class to students in the 2023 – 2024 school year. And while […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Omega Psi Phi Fraternity performs at a step show on November 7, 2015, in Miami Beach, Florida. | Source: Bobby Metelus / Getty At some point, white conservatives need to admit that their war against diversity, equity and inclusion is bigoted as hell. Perhaps they just need to say out loud to […]
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“When students are at home, we consider our main competitor is not another business school, it’s … [+] Netflix. So our courses need to be as engaging as a Netflix show.” Delphine Manceau – Dean, NEOMA Business School JB Delerue To inform, educate and entertain. This extract of the BBC’s mission statement as defined by […]
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Administrators from the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District convened with the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly for a work session Tuesday to present the district’s needs for the upcoming fiscal year. KPBSD, which is forecasting a $13.1 million budget deficit, has requested to be fully funded by the borough this fiscal year at around $54.8 million. […]
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Photo: Uncredited (AP) The University of Rhode Island has finally taken down a shortened quote by Malcolm X that was placed in its main library. The decision comes 30 years after the school’s Black Student Leadership Group and others protested because they said it was taken out of context and misconstrued the revolutionary’s original intentions. […]
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Photo: Klaus Vedfelt (Getty Images) The panic over critical race theory is at an all-time high in one of the most likely places on earth, Arizona. The Arizona Department of Education launched a hotline last week for people to report any lessons that use “critical race theory.” CC Off English We’re putting “critical race theory” in quotes […]
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Marissa Barnwell, a River Bluff High School student, her parents and their lawyer, Tyler Bailey, hold a news conference in Columbia, S.C., on Thursday, March 9, 2023, regarding a lawsuit filed against Lexington School District One. Marissa said she was walking quietly to class and decided not to stop for the pledge or a moment […]
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