Category Archives: Education
Children Need To Cope With Variety Of Teachers
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By VANESSA W. SNYDER As a teacher, I promise you most of us don’t have time to sit around and think about how much we hate individual students. That’s not to say we don’ t enjoy teaching some students more … Continue reading
Study Habits Take Work
By VANESSA W. SNYDER Go study. Just study. All you need to do is study. Good grades don’t just happen, you have to study. If I had a dime for every time I uttered some version of those words to … Continue reading
Teen Pregnancy Boom A Wake-Up Call
By DERON SNYDER There was welcome good news last month regarding teen pregnancies, at least at the national level. Unfortunately, students at Frayser High School in Memphis didn’t get the message, considering reports that about 90 girls are pregnant or … Continue reading
Shift The Paradigms
As the father of two young daughters – not to mention the husband of a National Board-certified teacher with a Master’s in education – I have great interest in issues such as school reform, standardized testing, academic achievement, teacher performance, … Continue reading
Get On A Roll By Slowing Your Roll
Inspiration. Don’t you just love saying and hearing it? It’s such a wonderful word but not always easy for writers to find. Admittedly, I’ve never truly had writer’s block. (I’ve had a few cases of lazy block but that’s another … Continue reading
Rush To Judgment Right Call On Coach
One of college football’s brightest young coaches — black or white — Mike Haywood was poised to celebrate 2011 in grand fashion, having risen to a big-time school after just two seasons as head coach at lower-tier Miami (Ohio) University. … Continue reading
Rally Against Corporal Punishment
Paula Flowe doesn’t know exactly how many people will show up Friday afternoon for a rally at the Texas State Capitol. And she doesn’t know exactly how many people will join her in sleeping out there until proposed legislation in … Continue reading
Schools No Place For Spankings
Did you see the video of a high school basketball coach whipping a player that went viral recently and spawned a mass of outraged viewers? Murrah High School’s Marlon Dorsey admitted to “paddling” his students — even though corporal punishment … Continue reading
The Root’s Confab
This week on the Confab: Join Washington reporter Cord Jefferson as he talks with contributors Deron Snyder and Bassey Ipki about Kanye West’s mental health and whether same-sex education for black boys will help close the achievement gap. Listen here…
More All-Boys Schools, Please
Here are the latest depressing reports on the plight of African Americans: Only 12 percent of our fourth-grade boys are proficient readers, compared to 38 percent of white fourth-grade boys. By eighth grade, reading proficiency falls to just 9 percent … Continue reading
