By Duaa Eldeib
Tribune staff reporter
March 5 2010, 1:14 PM CST
The entire senior class at Chicago's only public all-male, all-African-American high school has been accepted to four-year colleges. At last count, the 107 seniors had earned spots at 72 schools across the nation.
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(Luis) The White House defends the Obama Administration's plan to rewrite No Child Left Behind, as Secretary of Education Arnie Duncan sat before two congressional committees on Wednesday to discuss the plan. Support for the plan was mixed, with many Democrats sharing their concern that schools could be turned into into testing mills.
National Public Radio covered Arnie's day on Thursday's Morning Edition. Catch The Rest of the Story...
Whose Student is She? The Mississippi Misstep Teach Your Kids About the Census Hate, Crossing the Line Try Teaching Tolerance on Facebook Forward This to Your Colleagues!
No Child Left Behind is plunging many English language learners into the educational mainstream - and sometimes getting them in over their heads.
A school district in Mississippi has cancelled its high school prom rather than let a lesbian student wearing a tuxedo attend with her date.
It's census time, and people of color or those in poverty are among the most likely to be undercounted. Use this lesson to explain the census to your students.
This Nassau County, N.Y., video uses teen voices to highlight the real-world meaning of turning hate into violence.
Want to join a community of people devoted to diversity and tolerance in the classroom? Check out Teaching Tolerance on Facebook. Just go to www.facebook.com and search for keyword "Teaching Tolerance."
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