Posts Tagged ‘Education’
Boutique Engagement: Children Affected by Educational Disasters
Tune into Saturday, April 27. 2013 at 3 p.m. (CST) to ON POINT with co-hosts Ronald A. Edwards and Don Allen as they discuss the latest in news and information. This is a special 90-minute program to deal with "Who is really black in Minnesota." Click here to listen. by Donald Allen, Editor-in-Chief - OurBlackNews.com Samuels and [...]
Resetting thoughts of Africa and African Philosophy
Disney has done a bad job in representing Africa as a place with talking lions, monkeys and Tarzan." (photo: Disney Lion King) The mini-riot at South High School is just part of the challenge when it comes to defining Africa and African Philosophy. If our youth have never been taught about Africa other than by Disney movies, it presents a [...]
Minneapolis Public Schools board and administration gets ultimatum: “Just 1, or Step Down!”
“Minneapolis' Black community suffers the most heinous disparities in education, but Black organizations including the African American Leadership Forum, Minneapolis Urban League and the Council on Black Minnesotans don’t show up at the table.” #asshats You have 90-days."Just 1, or Step Down!" (Photo: Susan Montgomery) by Donald W.R. [...]
Heritage Academy School (A Minneapolis Public School) is not given any after school buses or metro transit cards – What a difference a race and culture makes!
So basically we are going to have thousands of high school students riding metro transit and waiting at bus stops…any extra adult around? Sounds like asking for a lot of challenges (gangs, bulling, unattended youth on buses). I like the idea, but then we need to have adults at these bus stops and extra adults on these buses…but why are some [...]
Minnesota Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Delta Phi Omega Chapter presents, “Men who Cook!”
Editors note: IBNN’s editor in chief, Don Allen and others invite you to show your skills on the hotplate. Don’t be scared now, its time to buck-up and “show us what you working with!” All the information you need is below! The Minnesota Graduate Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc - Delta Phi Omega requests your presence. [...]
Education Humiliation: Are Parents really to blame for failures in Public Schools?
"If Black parents are to blame for failing Black children, can you explain why this Black child is failing also?" (Photo: Fark) I don’t know of one parent anywhere on earth that wants their children not to be successful in education. The fact there is a liberal agenda, which points and blames parents in poor communities for their children’s [...]
IBNN NEWS Exclusive: Deceptive yellow journalism at the heart of attack on Harvest Prep – board chairperson speaks out
IBNN has received many calls about the resent stories in the Star Tribune about Harvest Prep and its headmaster Eric Mahmoud. At this time, IBNN would like to make it very clear we are in support of Black education and student success in Minnesota. After careful review of several reports IBNN intercepted, it seems clear the “news tips” to the [...]
Board of Directors responds to Brandt and Star Tribune’s deceptive characterizations of Black educational institution – IBNN NEW Exclusive Report
"Crabs in a barrel when reporting on the Black Community." (Photo: IBNN) Editor’s note: The Star Tribune is refusing to print a response from the board of directors of Seed Daycare and Harvest Prep, the most successful educational institution in Minnesota when it comes to teaching, learning and success for students of color. IBNN NEWS has [...]
Minnesota Department of Education Commissioner Dr. Brenda Cassellius must resign in regards to investigation of successful Black charter school
"Black educations status quo in Minnesota." It’s evident that some of our people don’t have our (Blacks) best interest. This is what notoriety and success brings to Black education – an unjust scrutiny of processes. Now if this had been Superintendent Johnson of the Minneapolis Public Schools and she had somehow managed to close the [...]
When Girls don’t graduate, we all fail. Are the public schools listening?
IBNN has posted many articles about education from the Black male point of view. What’s happening now can only be called the beginning of an epidemic that was bound to affect Black women, simply because no one is really addressing Black males. Pieces (lot) of this story were a part of the report done by the National Women’s Law Center in 2007. [...]
