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Teachers at the Bloomingdale Head Start program in Manhattan tell Alexis Stewart that her 4-year-old son, Chase, is bright.
“He knows about different fish, different birds, different species,” Ms. Stewart said. “He’s on it.”
Chase took the city test for the public schools’ gifted and talented kindergarten program, but missed the 90th-percentile cutoff, she said.
Ms. Stewart, a single mom working two jobs, didn’t think the process was fair. She had heard widespread reports of wealthy families preparing their children for the... |
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Haitian-American musician and humanitarian Wyclef Jean is considering running for president of Haiti.
Jean's family released a statement Tuesday, saying that the Grammy Award-winning musician is "committed to his homeland," but he has not formally announced an intent to run for president of the earthquake-shattered nation.
In an interview with the U.S. Cable News Network, ...
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Significant numbers of today’s women and underrepresented minority chemists and chemical engineers (40 percent) say they were discouraged from pursuing a STEM career (science, technology, engineering or mathematics) at some point in their lives, according to a new Bayer Corporation survey.
“We want to knock down barriers. If we can do that, we’ll be able t... |
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A divided state Supreme Court Monday declined to jump back into the same-sex marriage issue, instead encouraging gay activists and their supporters to start over and file a new lawsuit if they want to pursue the matter.
Advocates for gay marriage had asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its 2006 ruling on the issue, in which the court said the state needed to extend gay couples the... |
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The comedian Dick Gregory used to joke bitterly
during the civil rights era, that you could always spot a white
moderate in Mississippi. He was the “cat who wants to lynch you from a
low tree.”
Few in Mississippi got to hear Gregory’s crack. When it came to race
issues the state operated under a virtual media lockdown in the early
1960s. When... |
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Virginia Sen. Jim Webb called for ending government-run diversity
programs in a newspaper column Friday, saying they have disadvantaged
struggling whites and hurt the cause of racial harmony.
Webb wrote
an op-ed column in Friday's Wall Street Journal that said a "plethora
of government-enforced diversity policies have marginalized many white
workers. The time has... |
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Willie Adams' 60-acre Georgia farm has been in
his family since 1938. He wants to hold onto its red clay and green
pastures for generations to come. The fight to keep it is increasingly
stressful.
"High blood pressure," said Adams. "Almost a heart attack. Oh yes. Yes. A lot of stress."
Adams is one of a dwindling number of black farmers, some 30,... |
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Time ran out for a team of Iroquois lacrosse players who have been
blocked from traveling to a tournament in England because of a passport dispute.
The 23 members of the Iroquois Nationals - whose ancestors helped invent
the sport as much as 1,000 years ago - refuse to use U.S. or Canadian passports,
and the United Kingdom won't recognize their passports issued by the I...
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Children and teenagers began streaming into a gleaming aquatics facility in
Laurel on Thursday, yanking on swim caps and pressing on goggles to kick off a
massive, professionally run meet designed to introduce them to the world of
big-time competitive swimming.
This year, though, the meet is doing much more. The Potomac Valley Swimming
Long Course Age Group Championships... |
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A recent study commissioned by USA Swimming and conducted by the University of
Memphis exposes some alarming statistics for many of our nation’s children. The
Constraints Impacting Minority Swimming Participation, Phase II study found that
nearly 70% of African American children and 58% of Hispanic children have low or
no swim ability, compared to 40% of Caucasians, put...
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President Obama has expressed his "regret"
to former U.S. Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod over her
ouster, the White House said Thursday. The president reached Sherrod
around 12:35 p.m. ET and "emphasized that Secretary Vilsack was sincere
in his apology yesterday, and in his work to rid USDA of
discrimination," the White House said Thursda... |
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On the 15th of October, 1894, a fervently patriotic, almost
jingoistic French man stepped into the office of the Minister of War, in
Paris. He had been told he was simply attending a review and he was
still not suspicious even as another man slammed a hand on his shoulder
and arrested him for treason. Just 82 days later he was convicted,
stripped of his military rank...
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In "Making War, Thinking History," Jeffrey Record describes how North
Korea's invasion of South Korea caught President Harry S. Truman by
surprise. Still, and according to Record, Truman associated North
Korea's invasion with Hitlerism, Mussolini's Fascism, and Japan's
aggression right before World War II. Therefore, Truman believed that if
Communist North Korea's ... |
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Expectant parents shopping for a home are not the only ones concerned about the date of the baby’s arrival.
Mortgage
lenders are taking a harder look at prospective borrowers whose income
has temporarily fallen while they are on leave, including new parents
at home taking care of a baby. Even if a parent plans on returning to
work within weeks, some le...
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Fourth seed Ronald Vink of the Netherlands came from a set down to keep
his men’s singles challenge alive during Wednesday’s second day of play
at the 21st British Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships, part of the
NEC wheelchair Tennis Tour. Meanwhile, two more British players beat
seeded opposition to progress to Thursday’s men’s and women’s si...
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Warsaw, Poland was host to this year's gay EuroPride festival, the
first ever to be held in a country in the former communist bloc. The
event has sparked controversy in Poland, and the parade on Saturday was
met with heckling and counter-protests.
Dancing to techno music and blaring vuvuzelas, 8,000 people from all
over Europe, North America and beyond turned out in Wars... |
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The Gulf of Mexico oil spill shows that the United States should
follow the example of South American socialists in nationalizing its
energy industry, filmmaker Oliver Stone said Tuesday.
The Academy
Award-winning director of "Born on the Fourth of July" and "JFK" said
that America's country's natural wealth was too important to be left in
private h... |
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South Africa's first black president, Nelson Mandela, is celebrating his
92nd birthday Sunday, with help from people all over the world.
Individuals
in South Africa and elsewhere planned to do 67 minutes of community
service Sunday, a length of time chosen to honor the number of years Mr.
Mandela spent in politics.
Earlier this week the United Nations
had its first ev...
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WINGER Rene Ranger and flanker Liam
Messam have been excluded from the All Blacks' squad to play Australia
in the Tri-Nations rugby test in Melbourne on July 31.
Ranger, who scored a try in his starting debut as the All Blacks
beat South Africa 31-17 in Wellington last Saturday, makes way for Joe
Rokocoko, who has recovered from a hamstring strain.
Victor...
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