Principal begs for $10m gov’t loan to keep school open

Kenya: 80% of Students Missing Virtual Learning Amid School Closures - Study

The survey conducted by Usawa Agenda, a lobby championing equitable access to quality education, indicated only 22 per cent of students interviewed in forty-two counties were accessing online learning resources with those enrolled in private schools being twice as likely to take part in digital

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Namibia: Teacher Suspended Over Racist Comments

The Walvis Bay-based school distanced itself from the conduct of the assistant teacher, Corien Steenkamp, after it was alerted of the teacher's conduct by a Namibian student in the

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Source: allAfrica.com

Angola: Public Calamity Situation Already in Force

Luanda — After 60 days of social confinement under the Presidential Decree on the State of Emergency, Angola is observing, as of Tuesday, a Public Calamity Situation, with new rules to overcome the coronavirus

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Source: allAfrica.com

Blackwell, David Harold (1919-2010)

David Harold Blackwell, mathematician and statistician, was the first African American to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences (1965) and is especially known for his contributions to the theory of duels. Blackwell was born on April 24, 1919, to a working-class family in

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Teachers hired by schools to miss May pay

Siaya Education Director Joseph Wamocho said 60 per cent of teachers in the county are recruited by school

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Source: Daily Nation - Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports | HOME

Woza engages Parly over schools opening

BY SILAS NKALA WOMEN of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza) will tomorrow engage the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Primary and Secondary Education, stakeholders and parents to gauge the country’s readiness for the re-opening of schools. The consultations come after government announced that public schools

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Namibia: Pupils to Be Divided Into Smaller Groups for Teaching

Pupils will be divided into smaller groups for teaching when schools reopen on 3 June, the executive director in the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture, Sanet Steenkamp, has

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Source: allAfrica.com

The importance of education

Guest column : Eddie Cross This might seem to be something that is taken for granted, but I think it is even more important today than perhaps at any time in the history of the world. Even today it is possible for an illiterate individual to become a millionaire, but they are the exception. By and

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Operations of private early childhood institutions in jeopardy

EARLY CHILDHOOD institutions that are not government-funded have found themselves in a bind, since their business models depend on children attending school, but are not able to do so because of the COVID-19

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

HBCU Timeline: 1837 to 1870

Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education established with the purpose of providing training and education to

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Source: ThoughtCo

Sister Angella Harris a ‘gentle giant of a woman’

Veteran educator and Franciscan Sister Angella Harris was yesterday hailed as a woman steeped in grace and humility as family, friends, and colleagues and several persons whose lives she touched joined in a memorial service to salute

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Rwanda: New Platform to Help Boost e-Learning

A new technology platform, Homeskul, could provide relief to struggling

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Source: allAfrica.com

District staff a source of pride in difficult times

During this pandemic, the district has named new principals for 19 schools, including Principal Derek Thomas who will serve at Adele Turner Elementary School in District

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Source: North Dallas Gazette

Ruby Bridges

“I learned a very valuable lesson, and it is that we should not ever look up at a person or judge them by the color of their skin, that’s the lesson I have learned in first grade.” ~ Bridges

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Kenya: Teacher Taken Ill After Coming Into Contact With Principal Who Died of COVID-19

[Nairobi News] A 24-year-old teacher has tested positive to Covid-19 after he came into contact with the school principal who died of the virus on Monday.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Jacksonville Public Education Fund Announces Five Finalist for 2021 Vystar Duval County Teacher of the Year – Free Press of Jacksonville

The Jacksonville Public Education Fund is proud to announce the top five finalists for 2021 VyStar Duval County Teacher of the Year.The finalists were chosen by a community selection committee that reviewed their applications, conducted [...]

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

Kenya: State Law Office Writes to Fairmont Over Mass Redundancies

Nairobi — The government has written to Fairmont Hotels seeking clarification on its justification to sack all staff over what it attributed to the uncertainties of the coronavirus

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Source: allAfrica.com

The Tie Breaker Ruling in Perspective: A Plaintiff Looks Back on the Historic U.S. Supreme Court Decision of 2007

In 2000 Kathleen Brose led an organization called Parents Involved in Community Schools which filed a lawsuit against the Seattle School District, challenging its tie-breaker rule in Seattle Public Schools which gave preference to racial minorities in school assignments when all else was

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Source: Black Past

Teachers seek to boost engagement with remote learning

On a recent school day, Boston Latin Academy art teacher Taina Vargas was working in her kitchen, leading a class while helping her first-grader, Solwazi, with his own class

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Source: The Bay State Banner

Booker T. Washington, African-American Educator

Booker Taliaferro Washington grew up the child of a slave in the South during the Civil War. Following emancipation, he moved with his mother and stepfather to West Virginia, where he worked in salt furnaces and a coal mine but also learned to read. At age 16, he made his way to Hampton Normal and

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US nears 100,000 pandemic deaths: Does Trump feel your pain? | The Atlanta Voice

As diverse as they were in eloquence and empathy, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama each had his own way of piercing the noise of catastrophe and reaching

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Keith L. Black, M.D. – A Trailblazer Inspiring the Next Generation of Neurosurgeons

Bursting with excitement, about 135 seventh- and eighth-graders gathered in a conference room at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and listened intently to a speech that could end up shaping their young

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Source: Savoy Network

White Georgia Teacher Apologizes for Telling Students That Breonna Taylor is Responsible for her Own Death

Susan McCoy apologizes for blaming Breonna Taylor for her own death, telling her class, "if you hang out with people who are criminals, you're likely to get caught in the crossfire"

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Source: Black Enterprise - The Premier Resource for Black Entrepreneurs and Career, Tech, and Money Content for Black People - Black Ent

Kenya: Over One Million Rendered Jobless in Kenya As COVID-19 Takes Toll On Businesses

At least one million Kenyans have lost their jobs or have been put on indefinite unpaid leave as the Covid-19 pandemic morphs into a major jobs

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Source: allAfrica.com

#JamaicaTogether | Former principal launches storytelling YouTube channel for children

A retired educator has launched a YouTube channel dedicated to storytelling, aiming to ignite a passion for reading in young

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

'You Don't Have to Think About That': Kandi Burruss Gets Emotional After Having Hard Conversations with Her Children About Police Brutality

It’s the talk that many Black parents struggle to have with their kids, the discussion of how to deal with the police, and “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” reality diva Kandi Burruss and her husband Todd Tucker are no

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'Selma' director Ava DuVernay among three Freedom Award recipients

The slave narratives of Frederick Douglass, the “I Have a Dream” speech of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the “Black Lives Matter” meme of today’s protesters all testify to the power of words in the struggle for social justice in

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Row between Makini School, parents deepens

The school’s parents teachers association (PTA) committee chaired by Nixon Bugo has rejected a fee demand by the school's owner, South Africa’s private education firm AdvTech Group, while the institution's management insists that parents must pay to keep the institution

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Cassellius, teachers at odds over opening - The Bay State Banner

The Boston Teachers Union Sunday took a vote of no confidence in Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius after they say she refused to sign an agreement extending safety precautions to 28 schools that reopened for high-needs students

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Source: The Bay State Banner

Caribbean countries renew disaster risk insurance policies

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (CMC) —The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF SPC) says its member governments in the Caribbean have all renewed their parametric insurance coverage for tropical cyclone, excess rainfall, earthquake and fisheries in light of the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane

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