Mark Naison is a professor of African American research and history at Fordham college and director of Fordham’s city research program. He is the writer of three books and over 100 articles on African-American history, city history, and sports activities. He blogs at “With a Brooklyn accent.” some of his posts have been regarded on […]

Ohio Gov. John Kasich is campaigning for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination via touting “successes” in his nation, together with his schooling record. But a study that record gives an exceptional picture than the only one he paints. Some see a real training mess created by the Kasich management considering that he took the workplace […]

Sen. Lamar Alexander ripped into education Secretary John King Jr. all through listening to on Tuesday, accusing the Obama administration of looking to unilaterally exchange key provisions of the state’s new federal education law. Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate’s education committee, became specifically frustrated with proposed guidelines for how districts might spend billions of […]

MEXICO city — Mexico selected as its new president Sunday Enrique Peña Nieto, a rushing, disciplined campaigner who promised to carry peace and prosperity returned to a country weary of drug violence and gradual increase, according to reputable results. As soon as the new face of a political party regarded corruption, Peña Nieto and his […]

The nation’s high college seniors have shown no improvement in reading success. Their math performance has slipped for the reason that 2013, in line with the consequences of a test administered by the federal authorities the last yr. The effects of the countrywide evaluation of instructional progress, or NAEP, additionally display an extended-term stagnation in […]

The countrywide debate over transgender rights is targeted on whether transgender human beings should use the toilet of the gender with which they become aware of or ought to use the only one corresponding to the sex indexed for them at the start. The restroom issue has pitted advocates of transgender rights towards people who […]