Source: Tim Elfrink / Miami New Times There are a lot of reasons Kiera Wilmot’s story has exploded online this week. First, there’s the sheer weirdness of a 16-year-old getting in huge trouble for a science experiment gone wrong. Then there’s the racial aspect: A black girl — exactly the type of kid underrepresented in the scientific [...]
Source: Nichole Smith / ABC News Twerking, as it is known in the hip-hop community, is a hard-hitting, rump-shaking dance move that celebrities including Beyonce and Miley Cyrus have been known to bust out, but it has also gotten a group of San Diego high school students suspended. A video, which has since been removed from YouTube by [...]
Source: Juliet Eilperin / The Washington Post In the run up to President Obama’s May 19 commencement address at Morehouse College, the college president is struggling to quell a growing controversy over what role a critic of the president will play at the college’s graduation ceremonies. Morehouse College President John S. Wilson, who headed the White House Initiative on [...]
Source: Tim Elfrink / Miami New Times As the tale of Kiera Wilmot — the Bartow, Florida student expelled and charged with two felonies over a science project gone wrong — went viral yesterday, a wide movement to support the 16-year-old blossomed from blogs to radio shows to Change.org petitions. Best of all, though, has [...]
Source: Kyle Munzenrieder / Miami New Times Kiera Wilmot got good grades and had a perfect behavior record. She wasn’t the kind of kid you’d expect to find hauled away in handcuffs and expelled from school, but that’s exactly what happened after an attempt at a science project went horribly wrong. On 7 a.m. on Monday, [...]
Source: Morehouse.edu By President John Silvanus Wilson Jr. ’79 Dear Morehouse Community: From the start of my presidency, I have emphasized the need to increase our institution’s “signal-to-noise ratio.” By that, I simply mean that we must increasingly focus our attention on important matters to the exclusion of distractions. A few months ago, I was [...]
Source: Andrew Johnson / National Review Online A prominent African-American pastor and alumnus of the historically-black Morehouse college has been disinvited from the school’s graduation ceremonies after penning an op-ed critical of President Obama, who is scheduled to give the commencement address. DON’T MISS: Morehouse Prez Says Philly Pastor Never Disinvited Earlier this month, Reverend Kevin Johnson, the senior pastor [...]
Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Source: Ben Waldron / ABC News As school districts across the country grapple with ideas to better protect students after a gunman killed 26 people at a Connecticut elementary school in December, a school system in Minnesota is stocking classrooms with bulletproof whiteboards to guard against possible future shootings. [...]
Source: Makenzie Weinger / Politico Soledad O’Brien — who recently served as CNN’s morning show host — will be joining the Harvard Graduate School of Education as a visiting fellow for the 2013-14 school year. O’Brien will focus on public education in America as a distinguished visiting fellow, the graduate school announced on Wednesday. Among the topics O’Brien [...]
Source: AP / ABC News North Carolina A&T State University has lifted a lockdown imposed after reports of a man with a rifle on campus. The university updated its website Friday afternoon to advise students and staff that the lockdown was no longer in effect. Prior to the lockdown being lifted, A&T spokeswoman Nettie Rowland said [...]
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