An NC Senate committee on May 13 unanimously advanced a bill that which would create the state’s first systematic K-8 math intervention program, modeled on Read to Achieve.
NASA has named a spacecraft after Maj. Robert H. Lawrence Jr. who was the first Black astronaut.
Air Force Maj. Robert Lawrence Jr.—America’s first Black astronaut—was recently honored for his contributions to space exploration.
Charles Bolden Jr., a former NASA chief, was awarded the 2017 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest.