(ThyBlackMan.com) After reading an article by Richard Vedder, Why Do We Have HBCU’s?, I came to the conclusions most people really do not see the major impact of some of these great institution of higher learning. HBCU’s produce more black PhD students than other institutions reported by the National Science ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Their History The landmark Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas unanimous Supreme Court decision rendered on May 17, 1954 stated that “separate educational institutions were inherently unequal.” In 1955, the Supreme Court would hand down another landmark decision, in Griffin v. County School Board of Prince ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Barack Obama will call for an overhaul of the No Child Left Behind education law on Monday because of features the administration says actually lower educational standards. The speech is part of a push by Obama to encourage a bipartisan revision of the law that was a hallmark ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Most college students are planning to waste time and money over spring break, partying hard, drinking till they vomit, and doing other things that might get them into trouble. Howard University is encouraging its students to engage in a more enlightened use of its time over spring break, by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The jobless rate among black college graduates is nearly double that of whites. Why? For years, Americans have been told that going to college was the best protection against unemployment. That hasn’t been the case for African Americans during the Great Recession, with a jobless rate nearly double that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Never mind a recent New York Times blog citing research that HBCU graduates make less money than other college graduates. As the UNCF’s president and CEO sees it, there’s much value to be found at a black college… To a hammer, goes the saying, the world is a nail. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up while I was in the 4th grade, I would’ve answered, “truck driver”. I had no intentions on ever becoming a truck driver, but at nine-years-old, it was the first thing to come to mind. Sure, deep ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am frustrated. I am caught between a rock and a hard place. I am a black man working in an urban school with kids that have a number of disadvantages. The students that I deal with consist of mainly African American and Latino individuals. I serve my school ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It has become a travesty of epic proportions; Black boys are being sent in record numbers to the psychiatrist for mind-altering medications that come with a plethora of side effects. At the heart of the issue are allegations by classrooms teachers, many of them poorly trained at managing trivial off-task ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s about more than Big Bird and Elmo. Public broadcasting is our best hope for telling our own stories… Throughout the proposed budget now before Congress are a host of cuts that could be critical to the well-being of black America. From health care and Social Security to federal ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In North Carolina this past Tuesday, Wake County Schools Superintendent Tony Tata seemingly took a stand for poor children when he announced that he would form a task force to reconsider the Tea Party-dominated Wake County school board’s controversial decision in March 2010 to base school assignments for children in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Well, they’ve done it again. Urban Prep Academy of Chicago, an all-male charter school with kids from the “worst” parts of Chicago, is sending 100% of its graduating seniors off to college. The school, founded in 2006, has stated that its continuous objective is to see to it that all ...