Education
Houston has no shortage of billboards, but now when you drive around the city, you might spot one of the 18 new HISD billboards shouting out the district’s improving academics and it’s also encouraging families to enroll students. “This is a catch-22 for a school district,” University of Houston education professor Duncan Klussmann said. Klussmann […]
Reading and math scores among high school students are dropping to the lowest levels in decades. Data from the National Assessment of Education Progress found that 12th grade reading scores dropped to the lowest in the history of the exam, which began in 1992, while math scores for the same age group declined to the […]
More than 300 Texas school districts and charter schools have signaled plans to use a state-developed reading and language arts curriculum that attracted national attention last year for its heavy references to the Bible and Christianity, according to data obtained by The Texas Tribune. That number represents about a quarter of Texas’ 1,207 districts and […]
The University of Cincinnati’s AACRC was shut down, but Black student groups are working hard to preserve its legacy, programs, and community support despite the loss.
Join NewsOne as we explore New Orleans’ community, ownership and traditions 20 years after Hurricane Katrina.Â
Black people have been present in Scotland for over 500 years, arriving through various means across different periods of Scottish history.
The Houston Independent School District (HISD) is partnering with METRO to offer free bus rides to qualifying high school students, with about 800 students signed up so far. Despite budget cuts, Earlier this year, HISD announced the collaboration to provide free rides for students in grades nine through 12 who live more than two miles […]
A high school in Ohio is making history as the first school in the nation to receive a decommissioned Air Force Thunderbird Jet. The Union Local Afterburners petitioned to obtain the jet, and it received Air Force approval in 2021. The retired F-16 will now be transported to Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas, where […]
A quiet crisis has steadily eroded Black landownership across generations, known as heirs’ property. Here's how you can protect your land from this vicious loophole.
Understanding the symptoms and the reasons behind prostate cancer risk in Black men is a critical step toward early detection and developing better health outcomes for our kings.
Bob Marley was reaching the pinnacle of his career when he was diagnosed with a rare form of skin cancer.
How do you get a whole race of people to uplift themselves after years of persecution? This was the very question Colonel Allen Allensworth asked himself before he embarked on one of the most important journeys in African American history: to build the first Black self-sufficient town in California.
