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This interview has been edited for length and clarity. *Dr. Valerie Camille Jones Ford, Head of the Mathematics Department at Atlanta’s renowned Ron Clark Academy (RCA), was inducted into the National ...
Valerie Camille Jones Ford, an award-winning mathematics teacher at Ron Clark Academy (RCA) in Atlanta and Spelman College alumna will be inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame (NTHF ...
At Spelman College, Valerie would develop lifelong friendships with Sylvia Cordy, Ernestine Beck, Connie Burton, Alice Goseer,and many others who became her most cherished relationships.
An Atlanta educator is one of several nationwide who are being inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame on Friday. Dr. Valerie Camille Jones Ford, the head of the math department at Ron Clark ...
The Spelman College and Georgia State alumna is the second educator from Atlanta and the fourth from Georgia to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame was established in 1989 and ...
Emmy-winning actor Valerie Mahaffey, known for Desperate Housewives, Young Sheldon and Dead to Me, died on Friday. She died in Los Angeles at the age of 71, The Hollywood Reporter cited her ...
ATLANTA — A middle school math teacher from Atlanta is one of the newest members of the National Teachers Hall of Fame. Dr. Valerie Camille Jones Ford, the mathematics department chair at the ...
Jon Woodward Spelman, 85, passed away Tuesday, May 13, 2025, at Ascension Providence Hospital in Waco, Texas. A Celebration of Life will be held at 11:00 a.m. Monday, May 19, at First Methodist ...
Valerie Bertinelli, 65, revealed she's trying the cold plunge health trend as she drops bad habits, like people-pleasing, and embraces aging.
The childhood home of the city’s first Black mayor, Maynard Jackson Jr., will now serve as an affordable housing facility for Spelman staff and faculty. The building held a ribbon-cutting ...
Valerie said the home served many purposes, not only as a family home and Rev. Jackson’s office, but was offered up as housing for university students and Black families during the 1950s and 60s. “The ...
Valerie Kinloch became the president of Johnson C. Smith University — a private HBCU in Charlotte, North Carolina — nearly two years ago. When she assumed the role, she never imagined navigating the ...