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
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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
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This time,
America got it wrong!
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. |
Study: Far fewer new teachers are leaving the profession than previously thought
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Photo provided by The Black Star Project
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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.
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