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Florida Education Plan Lacking in Both Promise and Practice

August 12, 2019 Staff 0

By Dr. Elizabeth Primas How is Florida addressing the needs of its lowest-performing schools under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)? Last year, the Collaborative for Student Success an independent non-profit education advocacy organization, sought […]

Editorials

There Are Too Many Guns in America

August 12, 2019 Staff 0

by Shaun King On Saturday evening, at a wonderful festival in Brooklyn just a few miles from my house, 12 people were shot. On Sunday evening, in the Bay Area of California, at a Garlic Food […]

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Texas officers on horses led handcuffed black man by a rope

August 6, 2019 admin 0

Aug. 6, 2019, 10:11 AM EDT By Elisha Fieldstadt “The police chief in Galveston said the “practice was not used correctly,” considering the nature of the arrest.” A Texas police department changed its policy Monday […]

Book Reviews

Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize Winner Toni Morrison Dead At 88

August 6, 2019 admin 0

by Krystal Franklin August 6, 2019  hoto by Craig Barritt/Getty Images for The Stella Adler Studio of Acting The literary world lost a beloved icon Monday night. Novelist Toni Morrison died at Montefiore Medical Center […]

Entertainment

Disney Dreamers Academy Alumna Returns to Walt Disney World as Miss Delaware’s Outstanding Teen 2019

August 6, 2019 admin 0

Disney Dreamers Academy 2019 alumna Jacqueline Means returned to Walt Disney World Resort on Monday with a new title – Miss Delaware’s Outstanding Teen. The visit was a chance for Jacqueline to show her new […]

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