Young, Black, And Blogging: Project Fuels Minority Education Debate

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Rub shoulders in education circles long enough and you'll encounter scholarly reports detailing the dire dropout rates and lackluster reading and math scores of black students.

The Schott Report and the Council of the Great City Schools report recently served up a full helping of depressing black student achievement data, particularly for black males--and the expected expressions of outrage ensued.

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[MarcEdward]

10:49 AM on 12/02/2010

What utter crap.
"For example, a teacher that’s thinking about creating a course on race and young people can go to the site and get a model of that unit for high school students."
Why would any school need a course like this? This seems like just a bunch of people whining about how they don't get enough funding or they aren't "understood" - I call BS. Minority schools underfunded? Really? Where's the date to support that? Or do they just feel this way?
Coddling, flattering, and babying African American students will not close the achievement gap.
Showing up to school ready to learn, behaving in class, and doing your homework will close the achievement gap, but I guess honesty is too much to expect. Just keep lying to them, it makes them feel better about their failures.