Update (4/3): A professor at California State U analyzed the National Education Longitudinal Study and found that living in an intact family and being religious play important roles in closing the academic achievement gap. Since living in two-parent families isn’t the norm for black children these days, at least one part of the equation is missing for them. Fatherlessness. What’s being done to black kids in this country is criminal.
Giving government schools more money, blaming whites, eliminating tests — these things make people feel good, but they don’t help kids learn, retain what they’ve learned, apply what they’ve learned, and excel. See my latest Washington Examiner column, “Parental involvement, family stability and the achievement gap.”
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It sounds unbelievable, but black parents in Pinellas County, Florida, are suing the school district over the black-white academic achievement gap.
Black students need programs “uniquely tailored” to them, they claim. Although black and white students are sitting in the same classrooms receiving the same instruction, pursuant to Brown v. Board of Education, black parents contend, with a collective straight face, that Pinellas County Schools failed in its duty to provide an “adequate education” for black students.
The people involved in the case that I contacted said the plaintiffs didn’t indicate what sort of programs were “uniquely tailored” to blacks. Let’s speculate: textbooks with lots of pictures? teachers who speak ebonics? a curriculum laced with watered down, intellectually light instruction designed to raise self-esteem? elimination of tests that measure academic progress and knowledge?
As soon as I find out, I’ll let you know…
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