Education

Via: defendernetwork.com Students from the William A. Lawson Institute for Peace and Prosperity Preparatory Academy-Texas Southern University (WALIPP-TSU) will serve as ambassadors for not only the city of Houston but the entire United States as they attend the World Culture Festival in Berlin, Germany, July 2-3. WALIPP-TSU will send at least five middle school students […]

Even with no product and no website, you can get paid for what and who you know. Learn how to make money online, without spending a dime. Making money online used to pretty much require you to have your own Web site, products to sell and some marketing savvy. But a new generation of dot-coms […]

Focus is also placed on malaria prevention in a country where the disease kills around 300 000 people a year – or nearly a third of one million malaria deaths on the continent. And it seeks to get the HIV and AIDS message across in an easy-to-understand way for children in Africa, the continent worst hit by the virus.

Thus, today through the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), America’s Black Press, I am announcing a unique solution and my personal contribution to make this solution available as an option for those who may have dropped out of high school, said Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. is Senior Advisor to the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) and President of Education Online Services Corporation.

Via: defendernetwork.com It’s a good idea to know your credit score and how that number will affect you. If you’re buying a house or a car, your credit score helps lenders know what interest rate you should be charged – the higher your credit score,

The free eBook is released just in time for National Small Business Week – an event recognizing the nation’s top entrepreneurs. This year’s event is slated for May 16 to 20, 2011, and will commence in Washington, D.C.

Denzel Washington confessed to a bit of stage fright in his latest role: Commencement speaker at the University of Pennsylvania. The 56-year-old star of “Malcolm X” and “Philadelphia” delivered a humorous speech with a sobering truth: Failure is inevitable. Yet instead of having something to fall back on, he said, graduates should “fall forward” – […]

The class touches on all aspects of finances including: insurance, mortgages, credit cards, retirement accounts, investing and taxes. But students also learn to balance checkbooks, fill out job applications and use Microsoft Excel to help set and follow budgets.

Officials at HISD said only teachers who have been displaced will be allowed to apply for the positions until the freeze on hiring teachers is lifted.

The inaugural African American National Spelling Bee Championships (AANSBC) will take place in Houston.