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Is Keeping Cursive Writing Worth the Fight?
Is cursive a dead form of scribe? 43 States have already made it “optional” vs required.
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First Black man to walk in space wants others to follow in his footsteps
He urges black youngsters to think about space-related careers. “They often want to aspire to be athletes or rappers but the best thing to enable one to take care of their family and themselves is education.”
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NAACP release new report: ‘Misplaced Priorities: Over Incarcerate, Under Educate’
Misplaced Priorities tracks the steady shift of state funds away from education and toward the criminal justice system.
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Ohio mother sent to prison for sending her children to school
An Ohio mother of two was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on three years probation after sending her kids to a school district in which they did not live.
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Schools in GA, NC, and SC open on MLK Day to make up snow closings
A decision to use the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to make up a snow day in Georgia and the Carolinas has infuriated civil rights leaders, who say the districts are insulting the civil rights icon.
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Republican school board in N.C. seeks to abolish integration
The situation unfolding here in some ways represents a first foray of tea party conservatives shaping a public school system.
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College educated African Americans migrate South
The nation’s college educate African-American population continued its southward migration over the past decade, shifting a large part of the black middle class from northern states to faster-growing economies of the South.
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Stay in your relationship longer
The amount of education a person has plays a big role when it comes to deciding whether to make a long-term commitment to that special someone or to have a child outside of marriage, a new report says.