By Jazelle Hunt, Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Teachers have always graded students. The Obama administration feels the time has come for someone to grade teachers. Teacher training programs—from colleges and universities, to for-profit certification courses and non-profit preparatory programs—have few, if any, external evaluation systems to check for and improve quality. In fact, only five […]
Sotomayor: A voice of reason among reckless rhetoric
By Marc Morial “Race matters…because of the long history of racial minorities being denied access to the political process…because of persistent racial inequality in society — inequality that cannot be ignored and that has produced stark socioeconomic disparities.”– Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court of the United States. Two weeks ago, in a disturbingly lopsided 6-2 vote, […]
Wisconsin ruling proves Voting Rights Act can still be effective
By Freddie Allen, NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After suffering a major setback last year in the Supreme Court, voting rights advocates are buoyed by a decision last week by a federal judge in Wisconsin striking down the state’s voter ID law as racially discriminatory. John Ulin, a partner at Arnold & Porter LLP and […]
New tobacco ‘apology’ ads plan still excludes most black media
By George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist WASHINGTON (NNPA) — A revised plan for major tobacco companies to purchase court-ordered ads to admit that they deliberately misled the public about the dangers of smoking would add nine White-owned newspapers to the list of publications carrying tobacco ‘apology’ ads but shut out more than 90 percent of […]
U.S. public feeling more multilateral than isolationist
By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON — Amidst a roiling and mostly partisan debate over Washington’s global role, a survey released here Thursday suggests that President Barack Obama’s preference for relative restraint and multilateral — over unilateral — action very much reflects the mood of the voting public.The survey, which was conducted by prominent pollsters for both […]
Johnson-Crapo Housing Reform guided by weapons of mass deception about affordable housing goals
By Marc Morial J “The new Senate proposal to reform the housing finance system…lacks provisions to ensure that the housing finance system is fair and nondiscriminatory.” Joint statement of the National Urban League and other major civil rights and housing advocacy groupsA new housing reform proposal slated for a Senate Banking Committee vote next week could […]
Schools still “separate and unequal”
By Freddie Allen, NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — As the 60th anniversary of the United States Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education approaches, a new report by the Economic Policy Institute found that schools are more segregated now than they were in 1980.The U.S. Supreme Court’s May 17, 1954 landmark decision […]
In U.S., black preschool students “punished more severely”
WASHINGTON —In the United States, African American children continue to face more barriers to success than any other race, new research suggests.A new report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation lists 12 categories that can contribute to a child’s success, including enrollment in preschool, living with two parents and distance from the poverty line. Under […]
U.S. foreign aid approach is outdated, experts say
By Farangis Abdurazokzoda WASHINGTON — U.S. foreign aid is becoming increasingly outdated, analysts are suggesting.Rather, reforms to U.S. assistance need to focus on issues of accountability and country ownership, according to a policy paper released this week by Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN), a prominent coalition of international development advocates and foreign policy experts.“Aid should […]
Obama says Civil Rights Movement opened door for his election
By George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist AUSTIN, Texas (NNPA) —With civil rights legends Andrew Young, John Lewis and Julian Bond and Jesse Jackson looking on, President Barack Obama on Thursday credited the Civil Rights Movement and landmark legislation signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1960s for paving the way for his becoming the […]
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