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Grit runs in the family: New CMS Supt. Dr. Crystal L. Hill

July 18, 2023 Education & Health

July 18, 2023 North Carolina's second-largest K-12 school district is in the hands of a veteran educator. That is not to say that everything she will initiate during her superintendency will be welcomed by every educator. But Dr. Crystal L. Hill presents herself as determined to use what ... Continue Reading →

The bumpy road to business success

July 11, 2023 Education & Health

July 11, 2023 This morning's Forum featured two women on different paths. Their businesses are not connected or related. But each presenter's story prompted both questions and suggestions from Forum participants. Each could do with a little help from their friends. Sharon Geter started making ... Continue Reading →

Achievement gaps between schools: Do they stem from ‘management problem’?

June 18, 2023 Education & Health

June 18, 2023 The material on this page was written by Bolyn McClung, an occasional Forum participant and longtime CMS observer, and is published with his permission. The text and graphs are in a PDF that may be downloaded here. The piece is entitled, “The Heartbreak of Being a CMS Academic ... Continue Reading →

Clinical drug trials: After abuses, can minorities see value in participating?

May 16, 2023 Education & Health

May 16, 2023 The questioning began with the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study, in which researchers withheld medicine from nearly 400 Black men without their knowledge,  just to see what would happen, and 100 of them died of a treatable disease. Then there were questions like whether Big Pharma ... Continue Reading →

Autism: Nurturing, advocating for people who struggle to communicate or interact

April 18, 2023 Education & Health

April 18, 2023 There may not be a single cause of autism. There certainly isn’t a magic pill to cure it. Some children exhibit signs of the brain-related ailment by the age of 2; others are nearly adults before signs appear. Some children have very mild cases and may exhibit few symptoms; others ... Continue Reading →

They did overcome: Pioneer Black nurses as hospitals desegregated

March 21, 2023 Education & Health

March 21, 2023 The Hill-Burton Act embodied President Truman's determination to make hospital care available to all. The prime goal, to increase beds nationwide, was achieved in 1980. To get federal support, however, Hill-Burton required entities like Charlotte Memorial Hospital to desegregate all ... Continue Reading →

Physician-turned-author offers ways to eat more healthfully

March 14, 2023 Education & Health

March 14, 2023 Guys, when they reach their midlife, have a crisis and go out and buy a red car, right? Former New Yorker Monique May, a Temple Medical School-trained family practice doctor who was a resident at what is now Atrium Health in Charlotte, decided to go to culinary school, write what ... Continue Reading →

Listening to district voices for CMS Board of Education

February 21, 2023 Education & Health

Feb. 21, 2023 Four of the six District representatives on the CMS Board of Education participated this morning in a discussion at the Forum. The initial idea was to compare how the promises they made before November's election compared with their actions to date. The quick answer is that very ... Continue Reading →

Things lost, nothing forgotten: Mecklenburg’s Black schools

February 7, 2023 Education & Health

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Tools for reading emotions, in others and yourself

January 31, 2023 Education & Health, Uncategorized

Jan. 31, 2023 Note to young people: Sometimes your work life can spring right out of and build on your life experience. Mic Alexander's current situation is a case in point. Some life events that Alexander described this morning led her to ask, how did I overcome these issues and handle it all? ... Continue Reading →

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