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How well I remember my sisters and I noting that all our elderly aunts would ask us, “How’s school?†It’s great that they cared, and that they recognized the importance of academics. But I recently read a moving post by a high school math and science teacher, in which he challenges himself to come up with meaningful questions that would elicit thoughtful responses from his former students.
Despite ongoing protests and a concerted effort to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president, electors will likely vote for the reality star as president
And too often, critics like Ruth Lopez Turley, the director of the Houston Education Research Consortium, worry that these programs have attracted lower-income students of color who might have succeeded at a four-year university if given the chance.
To address the struggles of men of color in college and to help them reach their goal of attaining a credential, programs like the State University of New York’s Black Male Initiative, have proliferated on college campuses across the country.
I have a confession to make. I didn’t help either of my kids apply for scholarships. I felt, as my friend Liza did about her own kids, that my kids should seek out and apply for scholarships on their own. If they didn’t, well, they would be the ones stuck with the debt.
