#black students

[alwaysbewoke]

McCarty was born on March 7, 1908, in Shubuta, Mississippi. She was raised in nearby Hattiesburg by her aunt and grandmother. McCarty, who never married and had no children, lived frugally in a house without air conditioning. She never had a car or learned to drive, so she walked everywhere, including the grocery store that was one mile from her home. When she was 8 years old, McCarty opened a savings account at a bank in Hattiesburg and began depositing the coins she earned from her laundry work. She would eventually open accounts in several local banks. By the time McCarty retired at age 86, her hands crippled by arthritis, she had saved $280,000. She set aside a pension for herself to live on, a donation to her church, and small inheritances for three of her relatives. The remainder—$150,000—she donated to the University of Southern Mississippi, a school that had remained all-white until the 1960s. McCarty stipulated that her gift be used for scholarships for Black students from southern Mississippi who otherwise would not be able to enroll in college due to financial hardship. Business leaders in Hattiesburg matched her bequest and hundreds of additional donations poured in from around the country, bringing the total endowment to nearly half a million dollars. The first beneficiary of McCarty’s largesse was Stephanie Bullock, an 18-year-old honors student from Hattiesburg, who received a $1,000 scholarship. Bullock subsequently visited McCarty regularly and drove her around town on errands. In 1998 the University awarded McCarty an honorary degree. She received an honorary doctorate from Harvard University, and President Bill Clinton awarded her the Presidential Citizens Medal. McCarty died of liver cancer on September 26, 1999, at the age of 91. In 2019 McCarty’s home was moved to Hattiesburg’s Sixth Street Museum District and turned into a museum.

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#oseola mccarty #philanthropist #university of southern mississippi #scholarship #black students #financial hardship #hattiesburg #mississippi #honorary degree #harvard university #presidential citizens medal #sixth street museum district #women's history month #history #black history

[mimi-0007]

#black tumblr #black history #black literature #black excellence #black community #civil rights #black history is american history #black girl magic #college #world war 2 #world war ii #wars #black pride #black people #equal #equality #students #black students

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A high school French class, 1941.

Photo: James van der Zee via the Howard Greenberg Gallery

#vintage New York #1940s #James van der Zee #school #high school #classroom #class #French class #Black high school #NYC school #Black students #vintage students #vintage teens

[tysaidokay]

Sophomore Year of College

So, as my first year comes to a close, it was great overall! But in terms of academics, I do feel as though I could've done a lot better as a student. I know I have the potential, I've just had a lot of obstacles. But, I want to finish this year out strong and make some changes over this summer, and next school year. To do so, I've been inspired by various posts here I will be making a goal list to come back to when next year comes around.

#college #black students #studyblr #university #student life

[ausetkmt]

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Florida school ‘segregated’ Black students for talk on test scores, parents say

Black students at a Florida elementary school were singled out and pulled from class for an assembly about how it was a “problem” that they had performed poorly on their standardized tests, school district officials said Wednesday. The incident drew outrage from parents and prompted an investigation by the school district.

Only Black fourth- and fifth-grade students at Bunnell Elementary School in Flagler County, Fla., were taken out of class on Friday for the assembly on how to improve their grades — even students who had passing grades. Students were selected to attend based on their race, Flagler Schools spokesman Jason Wheeler told The Washington Post on Wednesday.

Black teachers showed the students a typo-laden PowerPoint presentation titled, “AA Presentation,” which noted how Black students had underperformed on standardized tests for the past three years. On the slide titled “The Problem,” the school district identified Black students as “AA,” or African Americans, in its assessment of their low overall scores, according to the presentation obtained by The Post.

The incident has drawn backlash from parents who were not alerted about an event that had “segregated” their 9- and 10-year-olds. Some say their children were told in the assembly that they could end up dead or in jail if they did not do well on their upcoming tests.

“It told my child that she was not good enough,” Jacinda Arrington told WOFL, a Fox affiliate in Orlando. “The color of your skin means that you are not good enough, when, in fact, she’s one of the smartest kids in her class.”

Another parent, Alexis Smith, told WFTV, an ABC affiliate in Orlando, that her son was panicking after the assembly. She said he asked her, “So I’m going to die, I’m going to get shot, I’m going to go to jail if I don’t do right?”

The school district is investigating how Black students were the only group that attended an event aimed at encouraging improvement in test scores. As an incentive, the students were promised meals from McDonald’s, Flagler interim superintendent LaShakia Moore said in a statement Tuesday.

“While the desire to help this particular subgroup of students is to be commended, how this was done does not meet the expectations we desire among Flagler Schools,” said Moore, who is Black.

Moore added that after speaking with Donelle Evensen, Bunnell Elementary’s new principal, “it is clear there was no malice intended in planning this student outreach.” But, she said, “sometimes, when you try to think ‘outside the box,’ you forget why the box is there.”

On Wednesday, Moore posted a video apologizing to parents.

Evensen did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday morning. County School Board Chair Cheryl Massaro told The Post that while the event wasn’t intended to hurt the Black students or their parents, the School Board did not know about the plans for an assembly and would have advised against having only Black students in attendance.

“We know it was wrong, and it shouldn’t have happened. It wasn’t a great idea,” Massaro said. “It’s sad that it was segregated by race because that’s not fair. But that’s what happened.”

Wheeler said that no information has been given about what exactly was said in the assembly, specifically the claims from parents that students could end up dead or imprisoned if they didn’t perform better.

The event and the backlash to it come as Florida has dramatically changed its standards on how race and history are taught in the classroom.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, and his administration have faced strong criticism over a new policy that requires teachers to instruct middle-school students that enslaved people “developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” DeSantis’s administration has also blocked a high school Advanced Placement course on African American studies from being taught and pushed through the “Stop Woke Act” to limit discussions on race in schools and by corporations.

Wheeler told The Post that what happened at the elementary school had “nothing to do with education initiatives from Tallahassee.”

The elementary school is in Bunnell, Fla., about 75 miles north of Orlando. About 19 percent of the public school’s students are Black, and roughly 70 percent of the total enrollment are classified as economically disadvantaged, according to U.S. News & World Report. Evensen was named Bunnell’s principal last month after four years as an assistant principal at the school.

It’s unclear how many Black students were pulled from their classes for the presentation on Friday.

The state grades students on standardized tests between Levels 1 and 5, with 5 being the best score. As part of the presentation, the school said that 32 percent of its Black students scored at Level 3 or above for math and language arts. The school noted that 41 percent should be at Level 3 or above, according to state testing guidelines.

One slide said that Black students could improve their scores if they “commit to earning at least a Level 3 or higher on all standardized assessments” and “concentrate on passing all curriculum based assessments with at least a 75 percent or higher.” High-performing Black students were also called up by teachers and presented as examples to their peers who needed improvement, parents told WESH, an NBC affiliate in Daytona Beach.

Those students who show improvement, and win individual assessment matchups, “will have a meal from McDonald’s,” the school said in its presentation.

An in-school suspension supervisor also attended the assembly with two Black teachers, according to the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

Massaro, the School Board chair, said the assembly should have included all of the students who scored below Level 3.

“If we had done this and there was information about it to the parents, then it would have been a cross-section of everyone,” she told The Post. “There are White and Asian students who also don’t score well.”

Moore emphasized Tuesday that the school wants its parents and guardians to “actively participate in their children’s educational successes,” saying it was wrong not to alert families about plans for an assembly targeting Black students.

“Without informing them of this assembly or of the plans to raise these scores, our parents were not properly engaged,” she said in a statement. “… [F]rom this point forward, all of our schools will engage our parents, no matter what group or subgroup their children may be in, in our continued efforts to raise achievement among all students.”

But some parents are still upset, noting that the assembly targeting their Black children should have never happened in the first place.

“No other child needs to ever experience being singled out, being targeted, being discriminated against because of their color,” Francine Howard, whose daughter was in the assembly, told First Coast News.

“It’s 2023, and they segregated our babies,” Arrington said.

#Florida school ‘segregated’ Black students for talk on test scores #parents say #florida #Black History Matters #Black Students #Youtube

[meshouldbestudying]

Day 7 of … (Productivity Challenge ✍🏾)

I’m back. Dedicated prep for Step 1 has begun for me. Starting out with the beast that is Cardio.

9 BnB videos done today

Few practice questions on Cardio Anatomy

1 UWorld block done ( percent correct was a little lower than usual 😒)

To-Do for tomorrow:

More BnB Cardio videos

Read through First Aid Cardio chapter

UWorld Block

Start reviewing incorrect questions

(Posts will be tagged with ✍🏾)

#✍🏾 #medschool #black studyblr #med student #studyblr #medical school #productivity #usmle step 1 #black students

[b-courageous1010]

Trying out a new method for taking notes in meetings. I watched a LinkedIn video about effective note-taking and it was AMAZING!

So for my meeting today I actually prepped for it by going over the documents to get an overview of the topic. Then any questions I had I made them sections on the paper and made sure to leave room to add information.

The meeting actually ended up covering a different topic than I initially thought but I was still able to make my outline work.

After the meeting I went back and added notes in blue which are any comments I had. I also highlighted and made brackets around important information. I felt I gained valuable insight from the meeting so that’s a win! I’m going to continue to tweak my method but I’m confident I have a solid foundation!

#black femininity #soft black girls #level up diary #studying aesthetic #finance student #study motivation #black studyblr #black students

[bdr-mvmt2024]

Through activism, scholarship, and service, student leadership can empower and influence others towards a greater goal. And when spearheaded by those equipped to influence and guide, one can only begin to imagine the strides towards reform. Who is this person, you may ask? Who obtains the qualities of a leader, motivator, and activist? The answer to your question is a woman by the name of Samone Anderson. From Richmond, California, and a current fourth-year student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Anderson has connected and carved out spaces for Black Bruins in hopes to “see the community in a better state than what it was when [she] got there.”

Although assimilating to her role as the Community Service Coordinator, Anderson knew that her community deserved much more. After her recent success in becoming the Afrikan Student Union’s (ASU) Chairperson, the hurdle to creating a safe space for Black students became one of many challenges.

After seven years of persistence and determination and an extra push from the racial unrest and Black Lives Matter protests during Summer 2020, Black students at UCLA were granted the opportunity to have a Black Bruin Resource Center (BBRC). In hopes to develop community, encourage leadership, and foster relationships, this space serves the cultural and social needs of the community from retention efforts, programs, and activities to build and celebrate the all-inclusive African diaspora. However, the utilization of the center has not been as easy as it seems.

#sista samone #black bruins #black excellence #black students #black empowerment

[itsmythang]

Florida is NOT OK.

Flagler County, Florida, elementary school singled out numerous Black students and forced them to attend an assembly on improving their standardized test scores, as confirmed by the district’s interim superintendent.

FOX 35 in Orlando reported that last Friday, students in grades four and five were taken out of class to attend an assembly in the Bunnell Elementary School cafeteria, as learned by several parents.

The students who performed well on the standardized tests were reportedly brought to the front of the assembly and used as model examples as teachers discussed the test scores and offered gift cards to restaurants as rewards for improving their scores.

#standardized tests #Black students #school #Florida

[mimi-0007]

Orangeburg Massacre 1968. All because a white business owner didn't want to follow the law. He wouldn't let black students in. So this is what happened 👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾

#education #black students #black tumblr #black history #black literature #black history is american history #civil rights #black excellence #black community #black girl magic #civil rights movement #black lives matter #equal rights #equality #equal justice #black archives #black and white #black culture #police brutality #police accountability #racist #racisms #african american culture #american history #american studies #black history month

[keepxgoing]

what's crazy is I feel like a loser because I'm 28yrs old and don't have my Masters or Doctorate yet.....Like I got my BA in 2017.... bish get it together...

#like clearly privellaged problems #but still #I'm surprised I feel so less than because of it #me #mine #random thoughts #black academia #Black students #grad school #keepxgoing

[rodspurethoughts]

Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen Opens Scholarship Programs in Arizona

Photo by Ketut Subiyanto on Pexels.com ARCHER RAGSDALE ARIZONA CHAPTER OF THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR  TWO SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS FOR COLLEGE-BOUND HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS (PHOENIX, AZ) – The Archer-Ragsdale Arizona Chapter (ARAC), the local chapter named in honor of two Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American military aviators in the U.S. Armed Forces, is currently accepting…

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#Black Students #HBCU #Tuskegee Airman

[sweetietray]

#black students #college

[meshouldbestudying]

I took Step 1!

#medschool #med student #studyblr #black studyblr #medical school #usmle step 1 #study motivation #step 1 studying #black students #✍🏾 #medblr

[b-courageous1010]

Study mode this weekend: Real time usage of the Podomoro technique for working my case study with messy handwriting and all 🧚‍♂️

Talking to my BFF she made a valid point to use my smarts as a super power and what makes me different. I’m always the scholar of any friend group I’m in 💁🏾‍♀️ (besides my bestie because of course she’s a scholar too or else we wouldn’t be so close)

What are y’all doing this weekend?

#black femininity #soft black girls #classy black women #black women in femininity #black women in luxury #divine energy #divine feminine #leveling up #black studyblr #black students #studyblr

[angiospleen]

#stem academia moodboard #dark academia #stem academia #poc dark academia #black academia #stem academia aesthetic #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia moodboard #chaotic academia #stem #stem student #stem aesthetic #chaotic academic aesthetic #dark academia quotes #literature quotes #book quotes #quotes #moodboard #light academia #light academia moodboard #light acadamia aesthetic #angio moodboards