Today's New York Times Magazine includes a very interesting article, found here, about how the heads of a Manhattan private school and a national charter school program are working to help their students develop good character traits as well as good study habits. The private school head feared that his school's focus on testing at every juncture and encouraging [...]
Now that our sons are back in school, it’s time for parents to focus on our Back to School To Do List. Here are a few things you can do to help your son start the school year well: •Review your son’s schedule. Find out what you can about the teachers from your son, other parents and whatever adult [...]
Cyberbullying is a huge issue for children and parents in this digital age. Common Sense Media, a non profit organization devoted to helping families navigate the world of media and technology, has developed a "Cyberbullying Tool Kit" to help educators and parents deal with this problem. The toolkit, which can be found here, includes parent tip sheets on cyberbullying [...]
Several months ago, GCP posted "Summer Planning", which listed ways that you could help your son have a fun and productive summer. Now here are some suggestions of things you can do right now to help your son have a productive fall. Summer Reading. How's that summer reading going? Many schools assign books for each grade to read over [...]
A study recently conducted by researchers at the University of North Carolina concluded that the death rate was lower for Black men in prison than for those outside it. Take a look at theroot.com's reporting of this study here. This kind of news gives us another good reason to make sure our sons flourish in school: so that they [...]
The New York Times online has a series called "Room for Debate", in which it invites experts in the field to discuss news events and topical issues. Periodically the topic is education. The comments are often interesting and informative, and the format allows you to hear a variety of voices in the nation's educational debate. Check out today's topic, [...]
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Director of Harvard's W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research, and Gaston Caperton, President of the College Board, have written an essay in today's Huffington Post and theRoot.com calling for national focus on educating young Black men. You can read it here. Gates and Caperton co-hosted a webcast discussion of this topic today [...]
"Push for A's at Private School is Keeping Costly Tutors Busy", an article in today's New York Times, details the extensive and expensive tutoring underground in NYC private schools. According to this article, which can be found here, over half of the students in NYC private schools hire tutors during the course of their K-12 years. The article highlights [...]
Ben Jealous responds to the growing opposition to the NAACP's role in the lawsuit against the NYC Department of Education in an op-ed piece in today's NY Daily News, found here. Readers, what are your thoughts on this issue? It is your turn to weigh in!
Here's an update to our latest post: In today's NY Daily News, Stanley Crouch weighs in on the NAACP involvement in the NYC DOE suit with "The NAACP Enters an Unholy Alliance: It's Fighting Charter Schools Rather Than Supporting Them", found here. Let's hear what you think about this issue...