GARY Rodney Williams and Ricky Haskins were talking about the starting lineup for their 21st Century boys basketball team right before sectionals began a couple weeks ago. The subject of freshman guard Johnell Davis a fresh-faced 15-year-old came up. Haskins, an assistant coach, brought up the idea of not starting the lad and bringing him […]
Media Center
American high schools don’t seem to be working in the real world. As a dad, I’m part of the problem. I remember what it was like when I went to high school, and now that I have kids in high school, I’m looking for something that resembles what I experienced. Im guessing Im not alone. […]
BOURBON No matter how hard second-ranked Tri-County fought to make a comeback stick after trailing by double-digits early Saturday morning, Gary 21st Century Charter always had an answer in a 69-57 loss in the Class A Triton Regional semifinals. Tri-County (23-3) erased a 14-point first half deficit to take the lead on four different occasions […]
GARY Raven Osborne has an amazing story to tell. The 18-year-old high school senior at 21st Century Charter School in Gary will earn a bachelor’s degree in sociology with a minor in early childhood education from Purdue University Northwest on May 5, the same month she will earn a high school diploma from the charter […]
Rodney Williams, the only boys basketball coach 21st Century has known, took the job in 2008 because it was time to get warm. Williams was a football coach by trade. “It was cold outside,” he said. “I wanted to move inside.” Williams, the Post-Tribune 2016-17 Boys Basketball Coach of the Year, isn’t going back to […]
Joy is something all Indiana boys basketball teams still playing today on Semistate Saturday have. It’s in the bus ride, the locker room and out on the court. There are 16 teams in the four classes who are 32 minutes away from advancing to next Saturday’s state championships at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. How could this […]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations Early College High School Initiative has supported the creation or redesign of nearly 300 schools that serve more than 80,000 students in 31 states and the District of Columbia since 2002. Even more schools and districts have taken on this early college high school design challenge outside the auspices […]
GARY Core’Von Lott was playing basketball inside the gym at 21st Century a couple of summers ago when his phone rang. It was his mother, who told him he had been accepted as a student into the Gary charter school. Lott was working out at the time with Eugene German, the prolific scorer who graduated […]
The past few weeks have been filled with terrific school pride events that often don’t get talked about in the media so I thought I would share these five pictures with you directly. In Baton Rouge, our January board meeting featured performances from our cheerleaders and dance team. Our Baton Rouge school serves grades K-4 […]
Our nations capital is full of countless tales of humble servants who began their terms on an improbable journey to impactful American leadership. The confirmation hearings of Betsy DeVos for U.S. education secretary and the emotional responses of participants and observers demonstrate that education is a cornerstone issue of American leadership. The constant mention of […]