Excerpt from an article by Marybeth Gasman: Corbett believes that etiquette training is important, explaining, “Unfortunately, most youth do not exhibit good manners due to the lack of training at home. Parents may not be knowledgeable about etiquette, and K-12 schools no longer provide courses such as home economics to teach young people.” Corbett has…
Shaping Tomorrow: The HBCU Legacy and American Democracy
New #VaryingViewpoints episode! 🎙️ 🗣️ Learn about the transformative potential of #highereducation exemplified by the #HBCU tradition! 👏 🎓 In this episode of the Varying Viewpoints podcast series, we invited John Silvanus Wilson Jr., author of Hope and Healing: Black Colleges and the Future of American Democracy and Visiting Lecturer at Morgan State University. John shares his background…
Incarcerated students graduate from top ten university for first time in history
ABC News’ Alex Perez speaks to recent graduates from the Northwestern University Prison Education Program about how the program has impacted their lives. WATCH:
Texas A&M just showed us that schools have the money to pay student-athletes
You can’t keep saying there isn’t enough to compensate players when there’s always enough to buy out bad, fired coaches Fisher’s failure on the sidelines looks even worse when you compare him to the man he replaced, Kevin Sumlin — Texas A&M’s first Black head football coach. Sumlin was 51-26 during his tenure with the…
Researchers Find Understanding and Embracing Intercultural Tensions and Differences in Teams Increases Information Elaboration and Creativity
“Teamwork makes the dream work.” It’s a popular phrase used to describe the merits of working in teams to get things done. When applied successfully, creating and collaborating with coworkers can produce results that surpass a single individual’s contribution. In the past, teams were mostly homogeneous because this was the makeup of most organizations in…
“Silence represents a theory of the Black man’s reality”
This beautifully written book argues that educators need to understand the social worlds and complex literacy practices of African American males in order to pay the increasing educational debt we owe all youth and break the school-to-prison pipeline. Moving portraits from the lives of six friends bring to life the structural characteristics and qualities of…
Librarians turn to civil rights agency to oppose book bans and their firings – ABC News
Some librarians who’ve been fired as they take a stand against discrimination and banning books are turning to a federal civil-rights enforcement agency for help Read the full story.
8 Strategies To Enhance Civil Discourse In A Divided World
by Marybeth Gasman, Ph.d All you have to do is spend a few minutes on social media and it becomes very obvious we have a hard time talking with each other when we disagree, especially during these volatile times. In our conversations, we often fail to listen to the nuance in arguments, we jump to…
An Exploration of Material Culture: A Case Study of Tranby National Indigenous Adult Education & Training
The following is an excerpt from the collection of critical essays from The Samuel Dewitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice by Le’Passion Darby, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign February 9, 2020. After a fifteen-hour outbound flight from Chicago, I had finally landed in Sydney, Australia. My objective? To observe, photograph, and record material culture…
Cohabitation rates, rights, and responsibilities
Relationship formation becomes more varied across the globe (Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) Boris Johnson and his partner, Carrie Symonds, (lived) together as the first unmarried couple in No 10. Downing Street. But while cohabitation is celebrated in some parts of the world, it is not in many other parts. A Zimbabwean woman…
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