schools

Poverty, Dropouts, Pregnancy, Suicide: What The Numbers Say About Fatherless Kids

6:04am June 18, 2017

by Claudio Sanchez

Data clearly show how many fatherless children there are and how their lives are affected, but one best-selling author says he rarely sees interventions happening in schools.

Nicole Boykins is principal at Crocker College Prep in New Orleans. The pre-K through eighth grade school is one of five schools in a program to better serve children who've been exposed to trauma.

When Schools Meet Trauma With Understanding, Not Discipline

8:07am May 30, 2017

Children in New Orleans suffer from trauma at high rates. Now, several schools there are focused on catching and helping students whose behavior may be a response to their suffering.

Queue Listen Now

In a recent study from National Center for Education Statistics found even after controlling for academic achievement in high school, black and Latino students attend selective institutions at far lower rates and drop out of college more often.

Why Colleges Already Face Race-Related Challenges In Serving Future Students

4:01am May 24, 2017

by Melissa Hung

By 2020 more than half of children in the U.S. will be part of an ethnic or racial minority. Colleges and universities are figuring out how to prepare for them.

Education

Enrollment Doubles In North Carolina Charter Schools

11:43am January 04, 2017

by Associated Press

State records show that charter school enrollment in North Carolina has more than doubled in five years.

Jefferson County School District, north of Birmingham, Ala., has a student poverty rate of 22 percent. If the city of Gardendale secedes from the county district, it will become an "island" district within Jefferson County.

This Mostly White City Wants To Leave Its Mostly Black School District

2:04pm December 19, 2016

by Sherrel Stewart

Jefferson County, Ala., schools have been under a desegregation order for decades. Now that a majority-white city wants to form its own district, a judge must decide if it's violating civil rights.

Queue Listen Now

Education

Study Finds Inequities In School Funding; Wealthy Districts Benefit Most

4:38pm November 16, 2016

by Associated Press and Sean Bueter

A new report from a government watchdog agency is finding flaws with the way North Carolina allocates money to public and charter schools.

Research findings support the idea that later school start times could help teens learn.

Teen Night Owls Struggle To Learn And Control Emotions At School

9:13am November 03, 2016

by Rob Stein

Findings provide new evidence pushing back school start times, to let adolescents sleep and wake up when it's more natural, researchers say. It's going to bed late that creates problems.

Queue Listen Now

World News

Dozens Dead In What UNICEF Calls One Of The Worst School Bombings In Syria's War

12:13pm October 27, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

"Some people cursed the Assad regime. Some invoked God. And others didn't say a word," a witness tells NPR. Schools have been hit repeatedly during Syria's war and this is one of the worst incidents.

Zia Simpson, a student and sales assistant in Cape Town, says even her father tells her to tame her Afro. "That generation fought against apartheid, but they still carry around the mentality that green eyes look better on a person, that straight hair look

Health & Safety

Decrying Hair Rule, South African Students Demand To Be 'Naturally Who We Are'

4:01pm September 06, 2016

by Alan Greenblatt

Pretoria High School for Girls has long banned certain hairstyles so that students would have a "neat" appearance. Now black students are pushing back.

A growing number of states are now mandating some sort of education around sexual assault in public schools.

To Prevent Sexual Assault, Schools And Parents Start Lessons Early

7:13pm August 09, 2016

by Tovia Smith

While most college students go through courses aimed at preventing campus sexual assault, advocates say it's too little, too late. Some are pushing for similar efforts as early as elementary school.

Queue Listen Now