The Difference Between African-American & Black-American

What an excellent post I ran across recently. Please take the time to read it.

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Influx Of Black Students Causes Teachers To Flee

Whoa … this isn’t a study that paints teachers in a positive light, but it doesn’t paint minority students in one either. We’re faced with some tough questions here. Do teachers prefer non-black students, or are black students more difficult for teachers on average?

It should be noted that even black teachers are relocating, and it doesn’t completely focus on just black students. Other minorities are discussed as well as economic class.

clipped from www.edweek.org The best teachers tend to leave when their schools experience an influx of African-American students, according to a study of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., school district. C. Kirabo Jackson, an associate professor of labor economics at Cornell University, in Ithaca, N.Y., studied patterns of teacher movement in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools between 2002 and 2003, which was when the 137,000-student district ended its long-running policy of busing students to keep schools racially integrated. His results, published last month in the Journal of Labor Economics, show that, at all levels of schooling, high-quality teachers—both black and white—were more likely to switch schools as the policy change began to take effect and student populations shifted.

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D-Day If It Were Reported Today

D-Day: 65 Years Ago … We Saved The World

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Allied dead still not known, but estimated between 2,500-5,000.

Total allied casualties were roughly 10,000.

Civilian deaths are estimated to be around 19,000.

According to the D-Day Museum Allied air forces lost nearly 12,000 men in April and May 1944 in operations ahead of the invasion.

EPA Says Playgrounds Killing Us All

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Can you greenies please just make up your minds!