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Obama's Educational Excellence Initiative

Jeff_Georgia Wrote: Aug 15, 2012 5:47 PM

Truer words have never been spoken, Dr. Williams. Unfortunately, facts, like those sited about black education at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School or the black illegitimacy rate falls on deaf ears when the listener is Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, lib media, black politicians (vast majority of), and the educational establishment (and ed. unions). They don't give a damn about black children's education, they only care about their own power and pocket books. They are, in a word, destructive. Of black children, children in general, and of America. Pathetic.

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Obama's Educational Excellence Initiative

President Barack Obama recently wrote an executive order that established a White House initiative on educational excellence for black Americans that will be housed in the Department of Education. It proposes "to identify evidence-based best practices" to improve black achievement in school and college. Though black education is in desperate straits, the president's executive order will accomplish absolutely nothing to improve black education. The reason is that it does not address the root causes of educational rot among black Americans. It's not rocket science; let's look at it.

The president's initiative contains not one word about rampant inner-city school violence,...

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