I had the pleasure of reading an article from 2003 entitled “Rich, Black and Flunking” which centered on an anthropological study of a K-12 school district in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Both the parents and school district called in John Ogbu, the author of the study to give them answers as to why many Black students, [...]
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Rich, Black, Flunking
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Black Patriots – Still Not Good Enough!
As Black Americans, it has been difficult through the years to feel a real connection to a country whose people, in some places, still feel the innate need to treat a person of a different race as a second class person. Although Dr. King and at the latter [...]
Black men and education: Focus of Urban League report
Marlon A. Walker
This year’s “The State of Black America” study by the National Urban League pays the most attention to Black males because they are further away from parity with their White counterparts in several significant categories.
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I am a woman of too many blogs, but this was too important not to get on “paper” tonight. My son is in kindergarten this year, and I am continually fascinated at how much he learns each day and how articulate he can be in expressing himself. Sometimes he makes me turn my [...]
I never knew why Bill Cosby got so much flak for what he said about the (black) people who are doing nothing with their lives. Granted, with some of the scandals that he’s had (remember the long lost daughter, and the woman in Philly who accused him of drugging her) he’s not the most [...]
Many children have gone back to school this week. My son started kindergarten this week, at our local public school, and although I’m an old veteran of the public school system, I was a bit disheartened at the attitude and appearance of some of our potential best and brightest.
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Seems like boys and school just don’t mix, do they? They just can’t seem to take four to five hours of sitting still at a desk, writing or reading or listening to the teacher. They wriggle, they scratch themselves, they crumple up little pieces of paper, they look around the room to see [...]
Our girls need us, parents! With the garbage that the media is trying to feed our girls, especially our black girls, they need our support and an alternate to the trash flowing out of our television sets. Here are some of my favorite books that I used with my class. Some have [...]
