Students Without Borders Help Nepal; No Murders in May for North Omaha; This Time, America Got It Wrong!!!; Fewer New Teachers Leave Profession

Students Without Borders  are helping to rescue victims of the Nepal earthquake and are helping with the recovery effort from the devastating earthquake. Schools and churches across America and around the world should encourage their students to raise money and give it to a charitable relief agency working on the ground in Nepal to help the people of  Nepal.  Schools and churches may research their own agencies or check out the ones   Students Without Borders are helping to rescue victims of the Nepal earthquake and are helping with the recovery effort from the devastating earthquake. Schools and churches across America and around the world should encourage their students to raise money and give it to a charitable relief agency working on the ground in Nepal to help the people of  Nepal.  Schools and churches may research their own agencies or check out the ones below.  Click Here to Give through OXFAM America Click Here to Give through CARE Click Here to Give through Catholic Relief  Services Click Here to Give through the American Red Cross Click Here to Give through the Salvation Army  Click Here to Give through Doctors Without Borders No Murders in May  in "North O" (Omaha) We're Headed for Self-Destruction   Thank you to everyone that supports the No Murders in May Campaign, and to everyone that took the time to film this video and help spread the message.  Click Here to See and Hear Self-Destruction This time,  America got it wrong! Educators of the Atlanta Public Schools 12 When America starts sending 1st and 2nd grade teachers to prison for racketeering, we know that our country has lost its way.  Contrary to what many believed, the Atlanta teachers were NOT convicted of changing test scores, harming children academically, failing to educate children or taking money for any of their actions. They were convicted of either knowingly or UNKNOWINGLY participating in a corrupt organization, the Atlanta Public Schools!!! If you worked for the Atlanta Public Schools, you could have been convicted too, UNKNOWINGLY!  These Atlanta educators have been crushed! Some have lost their homes. With Ph.D.s, they can't get jobs in fast food restaurants! They spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on lawyers. They have been humiliated. They have been lied on!  They have been destroyed and disgraced. They have been broken. And soon, without your direct action, they will go to prison. It seems that their biggest crime was being Black, educated and wanting to teach Black children. One of the most egregious stories is of a second grade teacher, whose test scores didn't count for state AYP targets, who received no money, and in fact, used her own money to support her class. She did not cheat and had no reason to cheat. She had no previous record of wrong-doing but she was convicted and sentenced to prison for a minimum of five years. She was convicted for UNKNOWINGLY participating in a corrupt organization as she taught second grade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And much of Black America cheered as 1st and 2nd grade teachers were being sentence, handcuffed and taken to prison!!! America got it wrong this time with this trial!. 1) Click Here to listen to the Atlanta 12 and one of their attorneys on WVON Radio, and you make the decision of their innocence or guilt. 2) Click Here to ask President Barack Obama to send in the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate why 12 innocent educators were found guilty and ask him to overturn this America travesty and free the Atlanta 12. 3) Click Here to contribute financially to the fund to support these teachers. 4) Share this information with all of your friends, family, associates, colleagues and church members and call The Black Star Project at 773.285.9600 to find out what you can do to help the Atlanta 12 or to set up a "Free Atlanta 12" site in your city.It is still not too late!  Study: Far fewer new teachers are leaving the profession than previously thought Photo provided by The Black Star Project By Emma Brown  April 30, 2015 New teachers are far less likely to leave the profession than previously thought, according to federal data released Thursday.  Ten percent of teachers who began their careers in 2007-2008 left teaching after their first year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. But attrition then leveled off, and five years into their careers, 83 percent were still teaching. That figure - indicating that just 17 percent of new teachers left their jobs in the first five years - stands in stark contrast to the attrition statistic that has been repeated (and lamented) for years: That between 40 percent and 50 percent of teachers leave the profession within their first five years. The higher estimate, which has become a fixture in education debates, comes from the work of Richard Ingersoll, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a leading scholar on the nation's teacher workforce. But Ingersoll's famous estimate was just that - an estimate. A "crude approximation," he said in an interview Wednesday, made necessary by the fact that no one had tracked a cohort of new teachers over time to see how long they stayed in the classroom. Among other key findings from the federal data released Thursday: New teachers who are assigned mentors are more likely to continue teaching than those who are not assigned mentors Teachers with higher starting salaries - above $40,000 - were more likely to continue teaching than those with lower salaries. The proportion of teachers who leave the classroom involuntarily - for either budgetary or performance reasons - is not insignificant. Of the teachers who left after their first year, for example, 27 percent left involuntarily. Older teachers who began their careers after age 30 were more likely to leave the profession within five years than younger teachers, and men were more likely to leave than women. Teachers who entered the profession via an alternative certification program (such as Teach for America) were more likely to leave the profession than those who went through traditional training programs.  Teachers who spend their first year in higher-poverty schools (where more than 50 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch) are slightly more likely to leave the profession than those who spend their first year in lower-poverty schools.  Click Here to read full article                                                                                   Having trouble viewing this email? Click here