https://hunewsservice.com Your Neighborhood. Your Nation. Your News! Mon, 03 Mar 2025 03:15:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://hunewsservice.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-407787_352128264798897_1461219382_n-1-32x32.jpg https://hunewsservice.com 32 32 https://hunewsservice.com/variety/education/whittier-elementary-without-ac-during-record-breaking-heat/ Wed, 13 Sep 2023 01:16:35 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/?p=15858 By Alecia Taylor Howard University News Service As temperatures rose throughout the DMV area, an elementary school in Ward 4 felt every searing degree in some of its classrooms. Some classrooms in Whittier Elementary School went without proper air conditioning during record-breaking heat this past week. Three classrooms did not have working AC. As a result they were given window air conditioners. “Imagine a 4-year-old who’s hot,” said Angela Anderson, the president of Whittier Elementary School’s Parent-Teacher-Organization (PTO). “You have a whole set of complaints and falling out and the discomfort just looks different [than to a third grader].” According]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/public-schools-fail-to-teach-crucial-part-of-american-history/ Tue, 27 Feb 2018 10:19:16 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/public-schools-fail-to-teach-crucial-part-of-american-history/ Slaves on a plantation pose with their slavemaster, but only 8 percent of present-day high school seniors could identify slavery as a central cause of the Civil War, according to Teaching Hard History, a study released for Black History Month, by the Southern Poverty Law Center.  Courtesy photo. WASHINGTON –Howard University Professor Gregory Carr knew many Americans, including African Americans, didn't know enough about slavery, its origins and its impact on the U.S. and the world.  Still, even Carr, chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies, was surprised at the results of a study on what children in the nation's schools know]]>