Black To School: How To Prepare Gifted Brown Babies for Success
Protecting your young, gifted and Black child in schools full of teachers and students who do not look like them is possible. Here, three great ways to get it done.
When Diversity in the Classroom is Done Wrong
An educator breaks down how diversity in the classroom only counts when the school administration knows visitors are watching.
In Defense Of Public School: It Is What We Parents Make It
Are there crappy public schools? Of course. But not all of them are broken. Public schools are what we parents make them. And I’m glad we opened our eyes.
Black Family Faces Jail Time For Cheering At Graduation, Plus Other MyBrownBaby Fresh Links
A Black family is charged with the latest new crime for African Americans: cheering at graduation, plus links to stories about the benefits of delayed umbilical chord clamping and voices of mothers around the world.
The Rise of Black Home Schoolers, Plus, Love & Color and Other Links
Black home schoolers, turned off by the American school system that mistreats African American students, are increasing in number. Plus, check out this touching video that celebrates true love in a most unexpected way, and other fresh links.
Black Students and Summer Slide: How Our Children’s Back-To-School Progress Slows Every Year
Are the lazy days of summer killing the academic progress of Black children? No doubt.
This’ll Make Tiger Mom’s Head Explode: A Radical Way To Parent Black Children
Our jobs as parents is to help our children practice excellence within their own unique life design. Here's a radical way one mom puts this to the test as she unschools her daughters.
Brilliant but Lazy: Helping Your Underachieving Son to Succeed
How do you motivate your underachiever when you know he has the potential to succeed in school and life?
Sheryl Sandberg’s #BanBossy Campaign Is Disappointing. And Dumb.
When black girls are undereducated, bullied, stereotyped and left behind, it's hard to take Sheryl Sandberg's trite #BanBossy campaign seriously.
Jaden Smith’s Anti-Education Twitter Rant: ‘School Brainwashes The Youth,’ Everyone Should Drop Out
Deep, deep sigh: Jaden Smith launched himself right into a storm of criticism earlier this week for a series of tweets in which he suggested...
