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Beverly143 Wrote: Aug 15, 2012 12:59 PM
No child left behind = no child gets ahead. I briefly taught school in Alabama and I can tell you that a lot of the black parents were worried that schools were not teaching their children to be black enough. It's a culture or subculture that wants to imbed in their children that they are victims. Only when black parents start demanding from their children and not the teachers will education in some parts of the country change.
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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,...
Obama's Educational Excellence Initiative