Let's get together and insist on high quality education for our children. The children in Gary, Indiana are not getting the best education possible.
The challenges are many, and the opportunities great for them to meet state requirements, but get left behind in life. The situation is bigger than any one school, and sometimes pits schools against each other for tight resources. Here is a place where parents from all the schools in Gary can discuss how to make it better for our future leaders.
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05/09/2023
This is what happens when voters do not understand the agenda of participants.
Stay vigilant.
A right-wing takeover of a Colorado school board has some of the town’s conservatives deeply concerned A new school board quickly enacted its agenda in Woodland Park. Now teachers are leaving and the board faces growing opposition, including from lifelong GOP voters.
03/31/2023
The quality of the education is arguably related to the skill of the educator.
Part of that skill is the quality of their training and their exposure to lived experiences.
It is not enough to know how to use a drill.
You have to know the material to which you apply the drill.
"Jim Crow's Pink Slip": Systematic dismissal of Black educators from public schools | #TheBlackTable Best of w/ Dr. Greg Carr | Jim Crow's Pink Slip: UNTOLD story of systematic dismissal of Black educators from public schools | S1 E30Download ...
02/25/2023
How many teachers here graduated from an HBCU?
Black Students Perform Better With HBCU-Educated Teachers, Study Says Teachers who received their training at historically Black colleges and universities mean more to our communities than we realize.
02/01/2023
Would this help or hinder your student?
Indiana lawmakers roll back school choice bill, advance student literacy initiatives - Indiana Capital Chronicle Indiana lawmakers rolled back certain provisions in a bill that would further expand a school choice program for Hoosiers.
09/03/2022
"Results this year from the IREAD-3, the state’s third grade reading exam, showed a passage rate nearly 10 percentage points behind the top rate of 91.4 percent a decade ago."
Elementary student reading tests scores often serve as a projection of prison population changes. The more students that do not pass the tests the more prisoners the state has.
This also supports the businesses that profit from prison labor.
If you do not want your student to earn pay at prison wages make sure they know how to read very well before they get to 3rd grade.
$111M Lilly Endowment, state funds to target Indiana’s early literacy needs The Lilly Endowment and Indiana are making a $111 million investment to target Indianas sliding literacy rate for young readers.
07/27/2022
What problems are we setting our youngsters to solve through their education?
07/21/2022
Does this agenda match what you think our students need?
2023 education agenda Ensuring our public schools are equitably funded and that the school funding formula considers low-income and traditionally underserved students as well as our SPED and ELL populations. Advocating for our public schools to be equipped with the curriculum and best practices in teaching reading that a...
03/08/2022
Take advantage.
02/02/2021
It is worthwhile to search this out and match it to the guidelines of the school your student attends.
11/23/2020
Your students deserve to know about themselves. Here is a free course to help them. You do not have to wait for a school or system with other priorities. You can help your student educate themselves.
The Black Experience in America, The Course: Take It Online Now From the moment I taught the first lesson of The Course in July 2020, I puzzled over technological challenges. My students were spread across six states and the District of Columbia. How could I talk to them, show them video resources, encourage them to interact with each other?
11/14/2020
In Class with Carr (LIVE): The Legacy of Marching and Planning From the first march on Washington to today, Dr. Greg Carr will explore how it worked and what we can learn from those who came before.