Attention Students: The Word For Today

The word for today is

fissile

adjective | FISS-ul

Definition

1 :
capable of or prone to being split or divided in the direction of the grain or along natural planes of cleavage

2 :
capable of undergoing fission

Did You Know?

When scientists first used fissile back in the 1600s, the notion of splitting the nucleus of an atom would have seemed far-fetched indeed. In those days, people thought that atoms were the smallest particles of matter that existed and therefore could not be split. Fissile (which can be traced back to Latin findere, meaning “to split” or “to cleave”) was used in reference to things like rocks. When we hear about fissile materials today, the reference is usually to nuclear fission: the splitting of an atomic nucleus that releases a huge amount of energy. But there is still a place in our language for the original sense of fissile (and for the noun fissility, meaning “the quality of being fissile”). A geologist, for example, might refer to slate as being fissile.

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Our Children And All Children Should Know Black History

 

Jay-Z Scholarship

Jay-Z’s Shawn Carter Foundation Scholarship

The Shawn Carter Foundation Scholarship provides financial support to high school students as well as undergraduate students entering college for the first time. The purpose of the scholarship is to help under-served students who may not be eligible for other scholarships.

Students who have either graduated from high school or earned their G.E.D. may apply. Minimum grade point average is 2.0. Students must have a strong desire to go to college and earn their degree. Students must also have a desire to give back to their communities.

Comments: This Jay-Z Scholarship is a good opportunity for students who don’t get accepted for the usual scholarships. Just one thing…with the money Jay-Z has, the scholarship should be increased to at least ten Read more and apply for a Jay-Z- scholarship as well as other scholorship check out this website

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The Racist History of the Charter School Movement

By Christopher Bonastia | Originally Published at AlterNet. January 6, 2015

Touted as the cure for what ails public education, charter schools have historical roots that are rarely discussed.

As a parent I find it easy to understand the appeal of charter schools, especially for parents and students who feel that traditional public schools have failed them. As a historical sociologist who studies race and politics, however, I am disturbed both by the significant challenges that plague the contemporary charter school movement, and by the ugly history of segregationist tactics that link past educational practices to the troubling present.The now-popular idea of offering public education dollars to private entrepreneurs has historical roots in white resistance to school desegregation after Brown v. Board of Education (1954). The desired outcome was few or, better yet, no black students in white schools. In Prince Edward County, Virginia, one of the five cases decided in Brown, segregationist whites sought to outwit integration by directing taxpayer funds to segregated private schools.

Two years before a federal court set a final desegregation deadline for fall 1959, local newspaper publisher J. Barrye Wall shared white county leaders’ strategy of resistance with Congressman Watkins Abbitt: “We are

 

Teachers Arrested In Atlanta In Cheating Scandal

Former Deerwood Academy assistant principal Tabeeka Jordan, center, is led to a holding cell after a jury found her guilty in the Atlanta Public Schools test-cheating trial Wednesday.   (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Kent D. Johnson, Pool)

Atlanta Teachers Sent to Jail in Cheating Scandal

11 of 12 Atlanta educators are found guilty

Atlanta educators convicted in a huge cheating scandal got a quick taste of justice today—the judge sent 10 of them straight to jail after the guilty verdicts were announced, allowing one woman to remain free until sentencing only because she is about to give birth, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. All face serious jail time of 20 years or more, thanks to their convictions on racketeering charges. The 11 teachers and administrators were found guilty of changing student answers on standardized tests in order to boost scores, which in turn helped them secure bonuses and raises. (WGCL has a complete list of the educators and their convictions.)

“They are convicted felons as far as I’m concerned,” said Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter. “They Read more on this story…..http://www.newser.com/story/204856/teachers-sent-to-jail-in-cheating-scandal.html

 

Teachers Ask Questions Of Bill Gates

Teachers’ Letters to Bill Gates

http://teachersletterstobillgates.com/2013/06/16/who-thought-of-forcing-children-on-ieps-to-take-grade-level-high-stakes-standardized-tests-anyway/

 

School Reform

How State’s Teachers Get Trained, Licensed Comes Under Board’s Scrutiny

John Mooney | March 5, 2015

Questions raised about proposed reforms in standards for both alternate-route and traditional college-level education programs

The Christie administration’s plans for reforming the way teachers are trained and licensed for the classroom continued to hit speed bumps yesterday, with a variety of groups and educators raising concerns before the State Board of Education.

• Would doubling the classroom time required for student-teachers hurt more than help?  Read on…

http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/15/03/04/how-nj-teachers-get-trained-licensed-comes-under-state-board-s-scrutiny/

 

A True Story Stuns Students

Man’s true story of bus boycott leaves students stunned

ATLANTA — It is first thing in the morning, and Yolanda Everett is pushing her Sandtown Middle School students to name people with integrity.

“Teacher,” says one. “Judge,” calls out another. One girl raises her hand. “Martin Luther King demonstrated integrity.”

“Sure did,” says Everett.

The lesson today is personal and centers around this book, written by Everett.

“My book is about 10-year-old Peter. He’s growing up in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955.”

The book is nonfiction. The Peter in ‘Peter and the Boycott’ is Everett’s real life dad, Charles Peter Everett, and it tells his story of the Montgomery bus boycott from his child’s point of view.

Today is an amazing day, because Charles Everett is standing in front of his daughter’s class, the boy from the book made real.

“There were many feelings, but the one thing was we were all in this together. I wasn’t doing this by myself,” he tells the students.

The book tells how in 1955, read on…http://www.13wmaz.com/story/news/local/georgia/2015/03/06/mans-true-story-of-bus-boycott-leaves-students-stunned/24500849/

 

I Don’t Know How Republicans Sleep Good At Night

 The Republicans Propose Bill to Take $3 Billion from Black and Hispanic School Kids

A proposed legislation by the House of Republicans to cut back on budgets could hit hard at school districts serving black and Hispanic students. New data released by the U.S. Department of Education shows that the effort to re-authorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act could withdraw over $3 billion in federal funding that goes to 33 of the largest school districts which have large numbers of black and Hispanic students.

The bill will allow states to curtail spending on education at sequestration levels and let them transfer the money from schools that really need it to those that are located in wealthier districts.

Should the bill go through, school districts with a high percentage of black students could be out of $1.3 billion while those with a Hispanic majority could lose more than $1.9 billion; Philadelphia with its 55% black population, for example, could lose $412 million while L.A.’s with a 74% Hispanic population could lose $782 million.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in a news release, “The partisan proposal in the House flies in the face of what ESEA was created to do – give every child an equal opportunity to be successful. This bill is bad for children and would turn back the clock on progress. At exactly the time we should be expanding opportunity for America’s students and helping schools recover from the recession this bill would allow unconscionable funding cuts. Our teachers and students deserve better.”Read on…

http://financialjuneteenth.com/republicans-propose-bill-to-take-3-billion-from-black-and-hispanic-school-kids/