Education

Black History Month often sparks discomfort, revealing gaps in how history is understood. Here's why and what we can do to challenge it. The post Triggered By Black History? Why Black History Month Is Making People Uncomfortable… Again appeared first on MadameNoire.

 Maya Angelou was the first Black female cable car conductor in San Francisco.  Maya Angelou is best known as a Pulitzer Prize winning author, but before she began writing, she worked a string of odd jobs in her youth. When Angelou first went to apply for a job as a cable car conductor, they refused […]

Tennis player Althea Gibson was one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line.  Althea Gibson was born in South Carolina on August 25th, 1927. Her family then moved to Harlem, Manhattan, where she spent most of her childhood. When she was 10 years old, the Police Athletic League closed off traffic on […]

Black History Month is underway, with this year marking the 100th anniversary of the celebration. The month was set aside to reflect on both the history and teachings of African Americans whose contributions to society were sometimes left out of the history books. That was back in 1976, but the real celebration of Black History […]

Texas Southern University has become the first historically Black college or university in Texas to receive the prestigious Carnegie Community Engagement Classification, recognizing its integration of community partnerships into teaching, research, and service. The university partners with various organizations in Greater Houston to provide hands-on learning opportunities for students and expand services in education, mental […]

The Electrician Career Academy at Trio Education offers a fast-track, hands-on program designed to get students working in a high-demand field. The program, which lasts 10 weeks in the evening or five weeks in the morning, costs around $8,000 and includes boots, tools, OSHA-10 certification, and the TDLR license required to become an electrician. Students […]

Houston ISD is expanding its Career and Technical Education offerings for students at ten high schools through the Barbara Jordan Career Center, providing access to 16 programs of study beyond what is available at these schools. The changes will allow students to start career training as early as ninth grade, reduce waitlists for popular programs, […]

P&G doubles down on HBCU support, empowering students through mentorship, resources, and celebrating HBCU culture.

A Polk County elementary teacher is under fire after a video surfaced showing her leading students in a supposedly “funny” birthday ditty that included the lines, “You live in a zoo — you look like a monkey, and you smell like one too,” sung to a 6-year-old Black kindergartner, according to the child’s mother. The […]

Houston’s airwaves and social feeds are on fire after a woman’s viral rant claimed, in no uncertain terms, “Nobody under 40 should be teaching high school.” Her argument? Younger teachers are still too close in mindset to the teens they’re supposed to supervise—and it’s turning classroom authority on its head. “Y’all are too young to […]

Reading and math scores among high school students are dropping to the lowest levels in decades.  Data from the National Assessment of Education Progress found that 12th grade reading scores dropped to the lowest in the history of the exam, which began in 1992, while math scores for the same age group declined to the […]

A new documentary, “The Price of Excellence,” in collaboration with U.S. Congresswoman Alma Adams, delves into the history of underfunded Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and the need to protect them. HBCUs have been underfunded for decades, with unequal treatment and funding compared to non-HBCU institutions. The Biden administration highlighted the owed funding to […]