Florida Politician Introduces Bill To Let Teacher's Also Grade Parents

If an elementary school teacher graded you on your involvement in your child's education, what kind of a grade would you get? Should your kid's first-grade teacher be grading you in the first place? If Florida state Rep. Kelli Stargel's bill becomes law, public school teachers will be required to grade the parents of students in kindergarten through the third grade. The parents' grades of "satisfactory,"...

PA School Segregates Students In Attempt To Raise Black Student's School Performance

Pennsylvania's McCaskey East High School located in Lancaster has come up with a controversial plan to help the school's black students: to segregate them.The policy applies only to homeroom, which meets each day for six minutes and once a week for 20 minutes, and was intended to help close the school's racial achievement gap. Read the full sto...

Mother Of Two Convicted Of Felony For Using Her Father's Address So Daughters Could Attend A Better District

Ohio mother of two Kelley Williams-Bolar was released from jail on Wednesday after serving nine days for falsifying records so that her two daughters could attend a better school.Williams-Bolar was convicted by a jury of using her father's address to claim residency status that would allow her children to attend a higher-performing suburban school.While her sentence was light in terms of jail time,...

She Argues With Police And Is Neither Cuffed Or Tasered

Janet Huckabee, the wife of former Arkansas governor and potential 2012 GOP presidential contender Mike Huckabee, was recently involved in a multi-car traffic accident that later sparked an argument with the officer who appeared on the scene.The Tolbert Report provides a transcript for part of the conversation which is posted below. They also provide information about how the incident was resolved...

Bomb Found On Route Of Martin Luther King Parade

In Spokane, Washington the FBI offered a reward Tuesday for information about a potentially lethal bomb found in a backpack along the downtown route of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade.The discovery before Monday's parade for the slain civil rights leader raised the possibility of a racial motive in a region that has been home to the white supremacist Aryan Nations. Read the full sto...

Why Asian Mothers Are Superior

A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder what these parents do to produce so many math whizzes and music prodigies, what it's like inside the family, and whether they could do it too. Well, I can tell them, because I've done it. Here are some things my daughters, Sophia and Louisa, were never allowed to do:• attend a sleepover• have a playdate•...

The Incredible Shrinking Value Of A Law Degree

Based on many sources of information, a generation of lawyers face the toughest job market in decades. Since 2008, some 15,000 attorney and legal-staff jobs at large firms have vanished, according to a Northwestern Law study. Associates have been laid off, partners nudged out the door and recruitment programs have been scaled back or eliminated. And with corporations scrutinizing their legal expenses...

Oxford, Cambridge Fail To Admit Black Students

Last year in 2009, 21 Oxbridge colleges did not offer admission to a single black student. The worst offender is Oxford college, Merton, which has admitted no black students n the last five years and just one in the last decade. Cambridge accepted six, according to the Daily Mail.The racial disparity at the schools extends to Cambridge's faculty as well. There are no black people among the more than...

Affirmative Action For The Elite

Harvard researcher, Michael Hurwitz studied the legacy advantage at undergraduate institutions in America and found that it is a bigger issue than previously reported.Read about the research in the Chronicle of Higher Education.According to his research, those who are considered to be primary legacies -- applicants whose parent obtained an undergraduate degree from the institution -- have an advantage...

African American GOP Official Resigns Because of Tea Party Threats

The only black Republican Party district chairman in Arizona resigned from his post in the wake of Saturday's shooting, citing threats from the Tea Party faction and concerns for his family's safety.Republican District 20 Chairman Anthony Miller was not the only party official to resign following the shooting that killed six and wounded 14 others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and a...