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Northpoint Christian School
Northpoint Christian School (NCS) is a private, coeducational, college preparatory Christian school located in Southaven, Mississippi. NCS was founded in 1973 by a group of Baptist ministers in the Whitehaven section of Memphis, Tennessee. Programs for kindergarten through Grade 8 began in 1973, and grades 9- 12 were added the following year. The school is dually accredited with SAIS and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. NCS is also a member of the Association of Christian Schools International, the TAIS, and the TSSAA. As of 2014, the school was the third-largest private school in Greater Memphis. For the 2022-2023 school year, they are celebrating their 50th anniversary of the schools creation. History NCS was established in 1973 as a segregation academy formed by white parents seeking to avoid sending their children to racially integrated public schools. NCS was established shortly after a busing policy was established in Memphis. In 1988, after what the sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private School
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TAIS
''Tais'' is a form of ''Tenun'' weaving tradition native to the eastern Indonesian regions of the Maluku Islands, the Tanimbar Islands, and the East Nusa Tenggara Islands (in Timor Island, the political government divided into West Timor of Indonesia and Timor Leste). It has become an essential part of people in the eastern Indonesia hemisphere region (as well as Maubere people in Timor Leste),Sacchetti, Maria José"Tais: The Textiles of Timor-Leste". Timor-Leste Government Tourism Office. 2005. Retrieved 7 February 2008. which mainly used for ceremonial adornment, sign of respect and appreciation towards guests, friends, relatives, home decor, and personal apparel. Since 2012, ''Tais'' officially recognized by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of Republic Indonesia as integral part of the National Intangible Cultural Heritage of Indonesia. Etymology The term ''tais'' is widely encountered from Rote to the Tanimbar Islands and goes back to a Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tipton-Rosemark Academy
Tipton-Rosemark Academy (often abbreviated TRA) is a private Christian school in Shelby County, Tennessee, Shelby County, Tennessee, United States. It is in the community of Rosemark, Tennessee, Rosemark, and near the border of Shelby and Tipton County, Tennessee, Tipton County. History Tipton-Rosemark Academy's inception came after local residents became concerned about their children's education following the Abington School District v. Schempp, removal of required government-sponsored Bible reading from public schools. An elementary school was established in a house in Munford, Tennessee and was christened Tipton Academy, after the county in which the school then resided. In 1967, a new facility was built in the nearby town of Brighton, Tennessee. In 1970, a kindergarten was added to the Brighton location, doubling the size of the establishment. In the same year, Tipton Academy purchased Rosemark School from Shelby County in hopes of expanding the academy into grades 9–12. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memphis Catholic High School
Memphis Catholic Middle and High School was a private, Catholic middle and high school in Memphis, Tennessee located in the Diocese of Memphis. It was in St. Peter Village in Midtown Memphis.A LEARNING ENVIRONMENT" Memphis Catholic Middle and High School. May 4, 1999. Retrieved on February 16, 2019. It was a part of the Jubilee Schools network of inner city Catholic schools serving low income families. It was scheduled to close after spring 2019. History Memphis Catholic was established in 1922, consolidating several smaller, parish-run high schools. The middle school program opened in 1993. Circa 2013 the school enacted the "Education That Works" program which helped stop a decrease in the number of students. In 2013 Bishop Byrne High School closed and merged into Memphis Catholic. That year each school had an enrollment of fewer than 200 students. Memphis Catholic High School was scheduled to close at the completion of the 2018-2019 school year, along with other Jubilee Schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franklin Road Academy
Franklin Road Academy (FRA) is a private co-educational Christian school for students in pre-kindergarten through grade 12 located in Oak Hill, Tennessee. The school was founded in 1971 and originally affiliated with the First Christian Church before it became a separate incorporated organization in 1982. Like other schools established in the period after a court ordered Nashville public schools to expanded desegregation busing, FRA has been described as segregation academy. The school's mission states that it is "a challenging educational experience in an inclusive Christian community with an unwavering commitment to develop leaders of integrity and purpose." Its head of school is Sean Casey and its head of upper school is Jay Salato. In 2016, FRA's enrollment was 795 students with ethnic and racial minority students comprising 18 percent of the student body. As of 2021, the school's enrollment had increased to 925 students. Its enrollment increased to 1,040 students in 2022. FRA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Assembly Christian School
First Assembly Christian school (FACS) is a private, college preparatory Christian school located in the Cordova section of Memphis, Tennessee. FACS was founded in 1972; programs for kindergarten through Grade 8 began in 1972 and grades 9-12 were added in 1975. The school is fully accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. First Assembly is also a member of the Association of Christian Schools International, Southern Association of Independent Schools, Tennessee Association of Independent Schools, Memphis Association of Independent Schools, and the College Board. Though strongly supported by First Assembly of God Church, of the Assemblies of God, the school's website identifies itself as Non-denominational Christian. History According to the historian Marcus Pohlmann, FACS was established in 1970 as part of a wave of private schools formed by white parents seeking to avoid sending their children to racially integrated public schools. Campuses Original Or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davidson Academy
Davidson Academy is a private Christian school located in Nashville, Tennessee. It has students ranging from K-3 to 12th grade. History Davidson Academy, originally called Madison Christian School, enrolled students from grades one through four in 1980. The school expanded and was renamed after Davidson Academy. Bill Chaney, the founding headmaster, retired in June 2015 after 35 years of service. He was succeeded by Tim Johnson, who himself was succeeded by Joseph Bradley. Most recently in May 2021, Terri Simmons was named Interim Headmaster when Joseph Bradley vacated that position. Academics Davidson Academy requires students to complete a rigorous college preparatory program before graduation. The students attend a weekly chapel led by teachers, students, and guest speakers. The Lower School, grades 1–6, offers TAP, Targeted Academic Progress, which is fast-paced learning for advanced students. The program allows children to reach their potential by providing targeted, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association
The Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (TSSAA), along with the affiliated Tennessee Middle School Athletic Association (TMSAA), is an organization which administers junior and senior high school sporting events in Tennessee. The TSSAA (commonly pronounced "Tee double-S double-A") is the only high school athletic organization in the United States to have a five-sport, Olympic-style spring sport championship tournament, known as ''Spring Fling'', for baseball, softball, track and field, team and individual tennis, and soccer. Spring Fling began in Chattanooga in 1993, later moving to Memphis, and then establishing itself in Murfreesboro. The TSSAA was one of the first high school athletic organizations to host a central site for football championships, beginning in 1982. Description The Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association administers sporting events for an estimated 110,000 participants, 374 schools, 4,000 coaches, 3,000 officials, and 5,500 teams in the sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMC-TV
WMC-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Gray Television. Its studios are located on Union Avenue in midtown Memphis, and its transmitter is located in northeast Memphis, near the suburb of Bartlett, Tennessee. History The station first signed on the air on November 13, 1948, as WMCT, initially transmitting on VHF channel 4. WMCT was also the first television station in the state of Tennessee. This first transmission coincided with being the first football game telecast in Tennessee—the tenth meeting at Crump Stadium between Tennessee and Ole Miss. Daily programming for WMCT began on December 11, 1948. The station originally broadcast from studios located inside the Goodwyn Institute Building in Downtown Memphis. It was owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, along with the city's morning newspaper, ''The Commercial Appeal'', the afternoon ''Memphis Press-Scimitar'', WMC radio ( 790 AM), and WMCF (99.7 FM) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Flight
White flight or white exodus is the sudden or gradual large-scale migration of white people from areas becoming more racially or ethnoculturally diverse. Starting in the 1950s and 1960s, the terms became popular in the United States. They referred to the large-scale migration of people of various European ancestries from racially mixed urban regions to more racially homogeneous suburban or exurban regions. The term has more recently been applied to other migrations by whites, from older, inner suburbs to rural areas, as well as from the U.S. Northeast and Midwest to the milder climate in the Southeast and Southwest. The term 'white flight' has also been used for large-scale post-colonial emigration of whites from Africa, or parts of that continent, driven by levels of violent crime and anti-colonial or anti-white state policies. Migration of middle-class white populations was observed during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s out of cities such as Cleveland, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Busing
Race-integration busing in the United States (also known simply as busing, Integrated busing or by its critics as forced busing) was the practice of assigning and transporting students to schools within or outside their local school districts in an effort to diversify the racial make-up of schools. While the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court landmark decision in ''Brown v. Board of Education'' declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional, many American schools continued to remain largely uni-racial due to housing inequality. In an effort to address the ongoing ''de facto'' segregation in schools, the 1971 Supreme Court decision, ''Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education'', ruled that the federal courts could use busing as a further integration tool to achieve racial balance. Busing met considerable opposition from both white and black people. The policy resulted in the movement of large numbers of white families to suburbs of large cities, a phenomenon known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
School Integration In The United States
School integration in the United States is the process (also known as desegregation) of ending race-based segregation within American public and private schools. Racial segregation in schools existed throughout most of American history and remains an issue in contemporary education. During the Civil Rights Movement school integration became a priority, but since then ''de facto'' segregation has again become prevalent. School segregation declined rapidly during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Segregation appears to have increased since 1990. The disparity in the average poverty rate in the schools whites attend and blacks attend is the single most important factor in the educational achievement gap between white and black students. Background Early history of integrated schools Some schools in the United States were integrated before the mid-20th century, the first ever being Lowell High School in Massachusetts, which has accepted students of all races since its founding. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
