The Mary Rigg Neighborhood Center supports five schools in IPS: Daniel Webster School #46, Stephen Foster School #67, Wendell Phillips School #63, William Penn School #49 and George Washington Community High School. One need expressed by these schools to Mary Rigg is the need for tutors for their students. A member from the Mary Rigg…
Author: Educator Barnes
We are Black Educators So Why Do You Only See Us as Disciplinarians?
In their article, “Decades after civil rights gains, black teachers a rarity in public schools” USA Today noted, “Because most white communities in the 1950s and 1960s preferred white teachers over black ones, court-ordered desegregation often ended the teaching careers of black educators.” Although Brown v. Board of Education led to the initial decrease of…
MSD of Washington Township Changes Start and End Time for All District Schools
During the summer before this school year began, MSD of Washington Township Transportation Department sent correspondence to families informing them they would no longer send postcards with bus information and parents needed to access their children’s bus number, pickup/drop off location, and time online in Skyward Family Access. Unfortunately, parents of elementary and middle school…
School Choice Highlight: Sidener Academy
This week, Jan 22-28, 2017, is National School Choice Week. When parents send their children off to school each day they hope the school is the best fit, a happy, safe and academically appropriate environment. When children fail to be successful or school becomes a place they dread attending, parents wonder what their options are….
Education Proficiency Lacking; No Time for Growth – U.S. Education Secretary Confirmation Hearing of Betsy Devos
The U.S. Secretary of Education confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos took place yesterday. Her nomination by President-elect Trump is controversial because of her lack of education experience. When former U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman introduced Mrs. Devos he said, “I know that some people are questioning her qualifications to be Secretary of Education and too many…
53 Years Since “I Have A Dream” and We’re Still Being Excluded
Every evening, we ask our boys to tell us something interesting they learned at school. On Friday, one of our sons shared he learned about a great man named Martin Luther King, Jr. When I inquired what he had specifically learned, my five-year-old son replied, “He wrote a long speech. He told people that black…
2016: A Look Back at The Highlights
When a new year begins many times we make resolutions or goals of what we can do better, but we should also acknowledge what went well. Here are six positive educational spotlights from Indiana in 2016. Just Tray No A group of Sidener Academy students wanted their school district IPS to make more environmentally friendly…