Does black success matter?

[Chris]

Thomas Sowell, economist, asks Does black success matter?

...What about black success? Does that matter? Apparently not so much.

We have heard a lot about black students failing to meet academic standards. So you might think that it would be front-page news when some whole ghetto schools not only meet, but exceed, the academic standards of schools in more upscale communities.

There are in fact whole chains of charter schools where black and Hispanic youngsters score well above the national average on tests. There are the KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) schools and the Success Academy schools, for example.

Only 39 percent of all students in New York state schools who were tested recently scored at the “proficient” level in math, but 100 percent of the students at the Crown Heights Success Academy school scored at that level in math. Blacks and Hispanics are 90 percent of the students in the Crown Heights Success Academy....

On and on he goes.

So why don't we hear about this? He says...

...Black success is a threat to political empires and to a whole social vision behind those empires. That social vision has politicians like Bill de Blasio and Hillary Clinton cast in the role of rescuers and protectors of blacks from enemies threatening on all sides. If politicians can promote paranoia, that means bigger voter turnout, which is what really matters to them.

That same social vision allows the intelligentsia, whether in the media or in academia, to be on the side of the angels against the forces of evil. That’s heady stuff. And a bunch of kids taking tests doesn’t look nearly as exciting on TV as a mob marching through the streets, chanting that they want “dead cops.” Black success has very little to offer politicians or the intelligentsia. But black children’s lives and futures ought to matter — and would, if politicians and the intelligentsia were for real.

[The Xl]

Schooling needs to badly change. You can't send poor kids to horrendous schools, and if they somehow make it, expect them to pay for 4 to 8 years of additional expensive as all hell schooling. Schooling needs an overhaul, and it should start with this communities.

[Peter1469]

It certainly doesn't to the democratic party. They would lose a lot of votes as blacks because self-sufficient.

[Chris]

If you listen to Vicki Alger @ Failure: The Federal Miseducation of America’s Children, you might suspect it was designed to fail our children.

[Common]

Thomas Sowell, economist, asks Does black success matter?



On and on he goes.

So why don't we hear about this? He says...

Wheres the list of all these schools.

[Chris]

Wheres the list of all these schools.

Not sure there is one.

[Dr. Who]

Thomas Sowell, economist, asks Does black success matter?



On and on he goes.

So why don't we hear about this? He says...

It essentially supports my view that the problem in these inner city public schools is the fact that they have the worst teachers and poor curriculum, which is the real reason that they are producing semi-literate graduates.

[Dr. Who]

Wheres the list of all these schools.

http://www.successacademies.org/

[Chris]

It essentially supports my view that the problem in these inner city public schools is the fact that they have the worst teachers and poor curriculum, which is the real reason that they are producing semi-literate graduates.

And yet alternative schools work.

[Dr. Who]

And yet alternative schools work.

Exactly my point. The right schools and the right teachers teaching a better curriculum get entirely different results with the same kids.