Many children have gone back to school this week. My son started kindergarten this week, at our local public school, and although I’m an old veteran of the public school system, I was a bit disheartened at the attitude and appearance of some of our potential best and brightest.
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Seems like boys and school just don’t mix, do they? They just can’t seem to take four to five hours of sitting still at a desk, writing or reading or listening to the teacher. They wriggle, they scratch themselves, they crumple up little pieces of paper, they look around the room to see [...]
5 Reasons why some Black Children Don’t Succeed
These reasons are based on my personal experience working with Black and Hispanic children in an urban education setting. This is by no means posted to represent an all-encompassing cure all for the issue of minority underachievement in school, but is intended as a watch list to curb [...]
I am a person who is in bed, in my night clothes by 9 pm. Of course, I am an at-home mom whose day begins, whether I like it or not, by 6 am. On top of that, I run a business and am responsible for three little’uns under 5 for most of the day. [...]
This is a reprint – the link is below.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070207090939.htm#
ScienceDaily (2007-02-08) — Although it is known that children with sleep difficulties are likely to have school difficulties, new research reveals that this connection between sleep and school performance is related to a child’s socioeconomic and ethnic/racial background. The study observed 166 8- and 9-year-old African-American and [...]
This article partially reflects my last post – Giving Black Children a Voice. It is a reprint from the Boston Globe.
Black parents tackle a gap
By Tatsha Robertson, Globe Staff | March 28, 2005
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As an educator of over 15 years, a black parent: the mother of three children of my own, I have seen so many black children fall through the cracks and many of them achieve. However, this is not going to a denigration of the school system, but hopefully a guide on how we, as [...]
Readers: This is a reprint of an article that I found here.
African American Children and Identity
By Christine Longmore
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