By Maya Martin Education is paramount in any child’s journey through life. It is an essential pathway to success and improving our education system for all families is something I have fought for my entire career. Its promise is invaluable but is also just one of many factors that ensure children and families can lead…
By Tanzi West Barbour There is data that shows that mental and emotional abuse by a teacher towards a child is a real thing. There are stories of teachers who pick on certain students, call them names, berate them in front of their classmates, and tell them they aren’t going to amount to anything. In…
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…