Education
North Carolina A&T State University logged a recording-breaking milestone in terms of fundraising.
Terrence Jenkins and the Black-owned bank First Boulevard have joined forces to launch a financial literacy initiative for HBCU students.
Prairie View A&M University launched a writing program inspired by literary giant Toni Morrison’s legacy.
Spelman College recently hit a major milestone with the highest application pool in the all-women HBCU’s 140-year history.
Apple has teamed up with Southern Company to build a first-of-its-kind innovation and learning hub for the HBCU community here in Atlanta. T
The Currys are coming through in the clutch for kids in the Oakland school system.
On Thursday (Sept 17), Trump announced that he would be creating a commission to promote "patriotic education" and adding that a grant program was developed to introduce a "pro-American curriculum." The move is largely political — and a reaction to a growing push by some academics for schools to teach an American history that better acknowledges slavery and systemic racism.
NASA has launched its “NASA At Home” website, full of educational content geared to keep children engaged with science as most schools nationwide are closed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The website runs the gamet of E-Books, podcasts, videos NASA calls “bingeable,” do-it-yourself science experiments, and virtual tours. NASA has even unveiled an app […]
Students who spend time on Facebook may see their grades slump. Researchers at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia analyzed the grades of 500 freshmen and found that the more time they spent on Facebook, the worse their grades were. Researcher Dr. James Wakefield points out that students spending more time on Facebook may […]
Just a year after the opening of LeBron James’ I Promise School the inaugural third and fourth graders are doing a better job than James expected. All 240 students who are attending the school originally tested in the one percentile in reading, just a year later the third graders’ test scores jumped to the ninth […]