Auckland As the sports commentators often say, LeBron James is “part of the conversation” on who might be the greatest basketball player ever. Having played with the Cleveland Cavaliers where he brought them a title finally after decades and the Miami Heat where he won two championships, he has been in the finals for umpteen …
Category: Education
Berea College, Work Colleges, Tax Bills, and Student Loan Ripoffs
Gulfport Berea College is as close as something comes to a one-of-a-kind, single institution, social change education experiment. Founded 162 years ago by abolitionists in Kentucky to educate freed slaves and lower income white students, to this day the college only admits lower income students. The Times reports that 98% of its classes use federal …
Scorecards Indicate Charter Schools are Failing in New Orleans Experiment
New Orleans Performance rankings for schools conducted by the Louisiana Department of Education indicate that most New Orleans schools have tanked between 2014 and 2017 with 65% of them scoring more poorly in that period. Schools in Orleans parish overall now only rate a “C” grade. About 40% of the city’s schools received either a …