| School Policies @ AFROMERICA A NATION UNDER ONE GOD Mon May 12 2008 |
Eliminating the Race Variable in Black Achievement
At least that's the impression one got when visiting the New Jersey Education Association web site before a couple of days ago. The teachers union made an admirable attempt to involve parents in the education of their children. The site made available a brochure for PDF download called "Getting Involved In Your Child's School". It also came in three versions. The first was called "A Parent's Resource". The second was translated into Spanish, and the last version was called the "African-American Version."......[more]
It cost approximately $7,524 in 2002 to educate one child in the United States, at 47,575,862 children attending elementary and secondary schools (including high schools). That's close to $4 billion a year for public education. And each year the budget is increased by another few million dollars. This is the most logical strategy, national educators and government officials and politicians can devise for improving the minds of America's children. Is it working?......[more]
Special education is intended to provide support and services to help students with disabilities learn to their full potential. In theory, and often in practice, students who are eligible for special education receive valuable assistance in the forms of tutoring and specialized instruction by teachers with specific training. Most important, special education is services for children, not a place where children are sent.....[more]
Affirmative Action Faces a New Wave of Anger In 1995, when Jennifer Gratz applied to the University of Michigan's flagship Ann Arbor campus, she wanted to become a doctor. When she was rejected, she said she abandoned that ambition.......[more]
According to a new study by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, black and Latino students are now more isolated from their white counterparts than they were three decades ago, before many of the overhauls from the civil rights movement had even begun to take hold.......[more]
How many times have you walked into the corner convenience store in your neighborhood and noticed the lottery line reaching around the isle? The players look to be at different income levels, educational levels, and ages ranging from 18 - 65. Better yet, how much time and money have you spent in the lottery line, hoping to hit your number. How many times have you played the same number with no luck or played a number every day only for the number to hit the day you did not play it? This whole scenario is all too familiar to many people regardless of race, but particularly to Blacks......[more]
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