Schools in the Dark About Tainted Lunches

By Blake Morrison and Peter Eisler,USA TODAY RACINE, Wis. — Students at Starbuck Middle School stumbled through the halls just after lunch on Oct. 31, 2007, holding their bellies and moaning. When the vomiting began, teachers knew that it wasn’t a Halloween...

Raising Achievement In Math And Science

Saving Our Sons In School An Ultimate Guide To Understanding And Educating Young Black Males By Richard Clay (A Future Publication) The Department of Education knows very well from prior studies that once young Black males begin to loose real interest in school and...

Prisoners of the Census

Record numbers of urban people of color are now in prisons in rural areas — where the census counts them as residents. Result? The prisoners’ ‘share’ of federal funds pegged to population counts will go to their keepers’ hometowns. By...

Plight Deepens for Black Men, Studies Warn

By ERIK ECKHOLM New York Times Published: March 20, 2006 BALTIMORE — Black men in the United States face a far more dire situation than is portrayed by common employment and education statistics, a flurry of new scholarly studies warn, and it has worsened in recent...