(ThyBlackMan.com) Call Me MISTER National Initiative Mission “To increase the pool of available teachers from a broader more diverse background particular among the State’s lowest performing elementary schools.” The Call Me MISTER program is contributing to the talent pool of excellent teachers by identifying and supporting young men who are ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Now former University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe in a moment of rare candor for someone who just fired himself admitted what has been probably one of the worst kept secrets at American colleges. His words: “Racism does exist at our university, and it is unacceptable.” During the past ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The mop–up of the classroom floor with a black student at Spring Valley High School by canned South Carolina Richland County Deputy Ben Fields ignited two firestorms. The first was over Fields’ physical manhandling of the student. This was seen as yet another instance of black students under relentless ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future. —Theodore Roosevelt History is important. If you don’t know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As technology changes, so does the job market. Two centuries ago, most low skilled workers would have found work as farmhands, while a century ago they would have been employed in a factory. Today they are most likely to work in the service industry, whether in retail, food service, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As the school year peeks its head out, the priority to reading and comprehension begins again to show that these two skills are the keys to academic success and advancement. No two skills are the foundation for learning and the continuation of life-long learners than comprehension and reading in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Teacher of the Year in Duval County Schools Venetia Elementary and Instructor at Edward Waters College in the Education and Urban Studies Department. The availability of conferences allows educators to engage with educational peers, learn new strategies, how to apply differential instruction, how technologies are used to teach students ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Having a serious discussion about Social Media with teens is becoming just as important as talking to them about sex, drugs, finances, driving and potential involvement with law enforcement. Youth, teens and young adults cannot be given free rein on the Internet without training, counseling and realistically behavioral expectations ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Nothing is more embarrassing to a parent or teacher than to speak with a child for a period of time and get no reaction, the natural response is to say, “Did you hear me?” When children listen, it makes adults feel that what we are saying is really important, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While government has a role in improving conditions in the Black community, the ROOT of our problem is a lack of education and knowledge, and we can’t wait for the government to address that issue, because the GOP has dedicated their very existence to dumbing America down, and with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter…” Chinua Achebe Imagine a law that did not allow you to read on certain days of the week, or at certain times of the day. Imagine a law that governed what you ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Having served as Executive Director of a nonprofit that provides mentoring services to minority boys, and having been a mentor to three African American boys, I believe mentoring is needed in the African American community now more than ever before. When Barack Obama was elected as POTUS in 2008, ...