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Rude advisors at Kennesaw . Smh pic.twitter.com/ugcX4gnIsp — KB (@IamKB_) May 14, 2015 Video showing a Kennesaw State University employee telling a Black student he…

The Georgia principal who chastised “all the Black people” after a handful of individuals prematurely left a graduation ceremony has been terminated, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. After her…

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President Obama announced Thursday that a new initiative will provide more than $250M in free e-books to low-income students, according to the Associated Press. But the real question is what are they going to read those e-books on? “We’re going to provide millions of e-books online so that they’re available for young people who maybe […]

One prisoner has gone to one of the world’s biggest publications to share his views that more correctional facilities should give inmates a chance to learn. John J. Lennon is currently in lockup at Attica Correctional Facility in New York and he’s part of a small educational program that has changed the way he sees […]

Education

Let Girls Learn officially launched at a special presentation at The White House on Tuesday. Let Girls Learn is a global effort to promote education for girls and women because an approximate 62 million of us have had our education challenged. President and First Lady Michelle Obama stood with the USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) and the […]

Education

John Legend, in a personal essay posted on CNN, expressed his views on how a less run-of-the-mill educational system would benefit the various interests of so many students. The empowering essay is a part of the larger initiative of Reimagine Learning, a $30 million ambitious project funded by the philanthropic New Profit. Reimagine will financially support this exciting academia movement […]

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In 2013 six students of color from the Bronx Academy of Promise submitted the math app Quest Math for the Verizon Innovative App Challenge. Later that year they won the competition along with nine other teams (beating over 350 other teams, and 1,000 schools). Now, the Bronx whiz kids are starring in two Verizon commercials that are set to air […]

Michelle Obama is calling on young women in the U.S. to take their education a little more seriously. Kids in the United States are often depicted viewing school as an unbearable daily chore, but education is not a basic right everywhere in the world. In her open letter to Seventeen magazine, the first lady asked […]

College ain’t for everybody and God bless the child who figures this out and makes their own way through getting a four year or post doctorate degree, obtaining a trade or simply opening their own business right out of high school. Many years ago I attended a New Year’s Eve party in my hometown of […]

New research is debunking the idea that young black men are falling behind in higher education. Don’t believe the hype! The Schott Foundation states that half of the black males in high schools will graduate with their class, and only 20 percent will have a high school diploma or even a GED by the time […]

#TeamBeautiful recently hosted a panel, moderated by NewsOneNow’s Roland Martin and populated with recording artist, Monica, CNN anchor and television personality T.J. Holmes, Clark Atlanta University President Dr. Carlton E. Brown, Ronald Skeete of Georgia Children’s Aid Society, 2014 Georgia Teacher of the Year, Jemelleh Coes and Erica Jensen of General Mills to further promote innovative ways to improve the educational space for students. Since 1996, the Box Tops for Education program has helped […]