Robin White Goode
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New York, NY, United States
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10 Things You Need to Know About Former McDonald's President and C E O Don Thompson
The Thompsons also head their own foundation, the Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education. Don is CEO and Liz is president. → Read More
8 Steps to Improving Discipline at Your Child’s School
Do you have the facts on how your child's school discipline its students? Read more to find out how you can access illuminating data and what you should do with it. → Read More
8 Things to Do After National College Decision Day
You’ve made your decision, notified the college you’ve chosen to attend, and sent in your deposit. What’s next? Make the eight steps below a priority and you’ll be all set come August. → Read More
Allow Children to Learn Reading at Their Own Pace
It's the same with academic growth. I've written elsewhere about my son who struggled to read on grade level in third grade. Then in one year he went through a kind of reading growth spurt. He literally went from reading "Captain Underpants" to "The Lord of the Rings." In one year. → Read More
Money Smart Week Helps Keep You in the Black
"During Money Smart Week, libraries in rural, suburban, and urban communities are helping people examine their personal finances, whether that involves estate planning or budgeting for groceries," says Felton Thomas Jr., executive director and CEO of the Cleveland Public Library. → Read More
A White Teacher Admits ‘It’s Not Just Starbucks.’ Teachers Also Need Racial Bias Training
Understanding that we've all been socialized in an anti-black American society is probably a first step toward addressing biased thinkin—a white teacher says, "It's not just Starbucks." → Read More
African American Debate Team Makes History Winning National Tournament
Bligen and Buckley are the first African American debate team to win the NPDA nationals, and the two are the most decorated debaters in Mercer's history, according to WRBL.com, which reported on the historic win. → Read More
The Re-segregated South: K-12 Integration Is Losing Ground
Large school districts across the South, some of which had been successfully integrated for years after they were created in response to the Brown ruling, have begun splintering into smaller segments. Wealthier, whiter communities are detaching from poorer ones, concentrating both wealth and poverty. → Read More
Most Black Parents Begin Saving for College Before Their Child Is 10 Years Old
Brown suggests that African American parents come out ahead if they work with a financial planner who can guide them to the best vehicles for saving. → Read More
Robotics Education Organization Embraces Diversity and Inclusion for K-12
The first time I heard about FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), I was a homeschooling mother. My son had come home telling me about another homeschooling family that was putting together a FIRST robotics team for K-12. → Read More
The Executive Leadership Council 2018 National Business Case Competition
The Executive Leadership Council, the pre-eminent organization committed to increasing black executive leadership worldwide, held its annual National Business Case Competition, sponsored by Exxon Mobil Corp., and announced the winners. → Read More
The Executive Leadership Council 2018 National Business Case Competition
The Executive Leadership Council, the pre-eminent organization committed to increasing black executive leadership worldwide, held its annual National Business Case Competition, sponsored by Exxon Mobil Corp., and announced the winners. → Read More
Some Community Colleges Offer Bachelor's Degrees
But here's one reason why this is important: When students have the option of studying for a four-year degree at a community college, they may be less likely to attend a for-profit school. For-profits are notorious for leaving students of color—in burdensome debt and with little chance of graduating. → Read More
Play this Game to Achieve Success
The game Success, developed by Evans and his wife, Tiara, is now being used in more than 60 educational programs in 12 different states. It's also sold in over 30 educational toy stores across the country. → Read More
New York Coalition of One Hundred Black Women's Role Model Program
This week the New York Coalition of One Hundred Black Women held its annual Role Model Program at the U.S. headquarters of high-end beauty brand L'Oréal in New York. → Read More
Student Town Hall in Newark Shines Light on School Inequities
The "I Have A Dream" Foundation, a nonprofit that comprehensively supports entire classrooms of children—sometimes entire schools—through college, recently held a town hall with students in Newark, New Jersey, that examined inequality in schools. → Read More
Students of Color Benefit When They're Promoted but Retain the Same Teacher
There's a name—at least a colloquial name—for the practice of keeping a teacher with the same entire class of students for more than a year: looping. Some private schools, such as the Waldorf Schools, practice looping in the early grades. → Read More
Your Cell Phone Addiction Is Affecting You More than You Think
I've written before about devices and children. But even as adults, we need to be aware that cell phone and other device addiction is affecting the way we interact with each other and the way we think. → Read More
Cryptocurrency Company Funds Over 35,000 Teachers’ Classroom Projects
Early last week, every single one of the classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org's site was funded by Ripple, a cryptocurrency company. → Read More
Creating a Pipeline to Possibilities Instead of Prison
"As a judge in a misdemeanor court, I often see first-time, young offenders between the ages of 17 and 25, many of whom have no direction, no support, and sometimes no hope," Judge Green told me recently in an email. → Read More