February 19, 2008
What One Can Learn At An Alternative Education Web Site
Probably more than any other group, African-Americans feel victimized by the educational system. For them, lack of quality education means more than fund shortages, inefficient administrators, teacher shortages and an overall 0broke0 system. To African-Americans, lack of quality education also means the almost complete absence of a Black presence. From the failure to give Blacks credit for the contributions they have made to the development of this country, to the erasure of the Black element from the 0American0 way of life- to be educated in the United States is to relegate Black People to after thought status.
Additionally, we need to ask ourselves, 0How often do schools use Black authored textbooks?0 They are a rarity at best, from elementary school through graduate school. What about Black instructors who do not present a status quo perspective? They are at greater risk of coming under pressure or being fired because a Black perspective does not contribute to standardized testing objectives (which, by the way, are more arbitrary than most of us admit). Even worse, the much ballyhooed standardized objectives have produced disappointing results when compared to the education students receive in most advanced European countries. It should not be surprising, then, if some […]
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