In reference to efforts to teach black children, the president of the St. Petersburg, Florida, chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Maria Scruggs, said: “The (school) district has shown they just can’t do it. … Now it’s time for the community to step in.”
That’s a recognition that politicians and the education establishment, after decades of promises, cannot do much to narrow the huge educational achievement gap between Asians and whites on the one hand, and blacks on the other.
The most crucial input for a child’s education cannot be provided by schools or politicians. Continued calls for higher education budgets will produce disappointing results, as they have in the past.
There are certain minimum requirements that must be met for any child, regardless of race, to do well in school. Someone must make the youngster do his homework–and possibly help him with it. Someone must ensure that he gets eight hours of sleep. Someone must feed him wholesome meals, including breakfast. Finally, someone must ensure that he gets to school on time, behaves in school, and respects the teachers.
If these minimum requirements are not met–and they can be met even if a family is poor–all else is for naught.
Scruggs says that it’s time for the black community to accept part of the blame. Part of the problem is the lack of parents’ involvement in their children’s education–for example, they’re not attending parent-teacher nights.
Having children’s books around the house and reading to preschoolers is vitally important. According to Mariah Evans, who headed a 20-year worldwide study that found “the presence of books in the home” to be the top predictor of whether a child will attain a high level of education, “one of the things that is most striking … about it is that the book’s effect appears to be even larger and more important for children from very disadvantaged homes.”
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[Dr. Walter E. Williams is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University.]
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5 comments:
It's comes down to the family unit being intact
It's all about raising kids right. It helps when the parent(s) were raised right, so this makes it a huge challenge.
11:44 and 12:34 but according to the democrats we aren't supposed to say thing. The reason is democrats want to and have succeeded in keeping blacks in chains. Keep them as slaves to the government. Dependent on their masters the democrat party. One of the few ways to become an independent and not a lowly slave is to get a good education. Democrats are completely against blacks being educated because then they can't keep them in chains anymore.
Books in the house for kids go to waste if an adult isn't there to help them read and appreciate all that books are and can do. But that's a multi-generational failing that can't be easily resolved.
You can not teach those who do not want to learn.
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