By Andrew Pillow If you are a teacher, then chances are you have dealt with many different types of parents. There are many actions parents take that teachers find annoying. You have the parents that never think their kids do anything wrong. You have the helicopter parents that are over-involved. By far, the most difficult…
By Cheryl Coleman At the beginning of Trump’s term as President, there were changes to the international travel rules and regulations. These changes not only impacted traveling abroad for personal reasons, but also impacted exchange student programs and education visas. College students residing in the US may have been deported back to their countries, while…
By Cheryl Coleman For many slaves in 1865, the Civil War came to close and they still had no idea they were free. The message of enslaved African Americans’ freedom was slowly shared state to state. If you were located far from Union armies, you continued to live life as if freedom did not exist….
By Cheryl Coleman Preschool has many different names like Nursery School, Primary School and Pre-K, which stands for Pre-Kindergarten. These institutions are educational spaces or learning establishments providing early childhood education to children prior to starting standard education at primary school. Having institutionalized nursery programs can have both a positive and/or negative impact on children…
As black parents we are expected to instill morals, values, and a desire to be a progressive and productive citizen into our children. Society is depending on us to produce valuable adults that give more than they take, leave a great experience when interacting with other citizens, and adhere to the written and unspoken rules…
By Erica Copeland The recent surge in separations of undocumented parents from their children is ominously reminiscent of the systematic break up of families during this country’s slavery era. From the 1600s to 1863 when slavery was legalized and then abolished, Africans who forcibly migrated to this country, were often torn apart from their relatives…
By Justin Cohen When protestors and activists gathered around the country last Thursday, to protest the Trump administration’s depraved policy of separating children from their families, the mood was raw. At the rally I attended in Brooklyn, the sentiment of the crowd ranged from disbelief to hopelessness to outrage. I have been to more protests…
By Cheryl Coleman The District of Columbia council has approved a measure that would allow chronically absent students to graduate from high school and allow chronically absent elementary and middle school students to not be retained. As the law currently stands, students who miss 30 or more days from school are supposed to fail and…
By Jada Drew Communities around the world need activism because it is an integral part of the ecosystem. Without activism, democracies do not exist, systems are not challenged, and the moral consciousness of communities die. The New Oxford dictionary defines activism as “the policy or action of using vigorous campaigning to bring about political or…