Road To African American Education

In America, we are told that it is the land where everything and anything is possible. For many years, it wasn’t like that for African American. With many hard work, strength, and courage African American manage to earn the right to an education. To the African American community education became more of a need than a want. We’ve learn that education is such a powerful asset that with it you are unstoppable. You can do so much if you put your time and energy to it. Having an education to African American is the one hope for a brighter and better

African American students account for the larger majority of minorities in public schools in the United States. Most areas in the northern part of the United states and coastal areas are ethnically diverse. However, down south this is not the case. Students of color will experience a harder time in the education system. African American students meet the obstacle of educators who will not want them to succeed based on a preconceived thought. In fact, Caucasian teachers make up for 85% of all

This chapter elaborates on how racism has a negative impact on African American education, in which has been happening for many decades and is currently taking place. Furthermore, it speaks about segregation and how it currently exists in different ways. Additionally, it speaks on how segregation not only exist in one school, but it likewise exists across the school districts. It speaks on how segregation in these schools has a negative impact on students’ academic success and future success.

Systematic reform can be defined as specific elements or components in an educational system. Reform is used to aspire change within a specific district or state, that is designed to achieve common objectives. After reading Chapter Six of Author Lisa Delpit (2012) book, “Multiplication is for White People”, I wonder if systematic reform can ever be achieved. Delpit provided an overview of how Brown vs. Board of Education set the tone for the achievement gap back in the 1960’s. Immediately following the desegregation of schools, black professionals were being replaced with white professionals. In certain circumstances, most of the white teachers and administrators were being hired to replace black teachers or administrators. Delpit provided an example that

Dr. Barbara Sizemore was a teacher, principal and superintendent who was extremely passionate in her efforts to advance the opportunities of low income African American students (Bradley, 1996). She implemented several educational tactics, such as the development of the teacher and new school policies to create the school achievement structure program (Bradley, 1996). To enhance the learning experience of the African Americans and low income students, Sizemore made the school system suitable for all types of students. She did not strive to accelerate and advance the educational environment of the African American student body exclusively, but sought to improve the entire structure of the school system in general (Bradley, 1996). Barbara Sizemore achieved to be an effective member of the African Diaspora through creating an effective school system, proving the disadvantage in desegregation, and the creating her school achievement structure program.

Historically black colleges and universities, otherwise known as HBCUs, have played an integral role in advancing the education of underprivileged black teenagers since their inception after the American Civil War. They have had students extremely well known in their fields today, such as billionaire entertainer Oprah Winfrey, the first African American Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. Though their graduation rates tend to be around 1 in 3, they have produced a majority of successful African American professionals. For the continued advancement of African Americans, HBCUs are necessary for offering educational opportunities that their students had been historically denied and presently out of financial reach, while promoting strong family values and equality that may be lacking at traditional schools and displaying positive African American role models in their alumni and staff.

• Closing achievement gaps is a critical issue. The performance of Blacks is systematically different from that of other racial and ethnic groups. Decreasing gaps in student achievement means that we must increase the learning gains of Blacks. This will require the creation of public policies and legislation that support public schools committed to identifying and setting high, worthwhile, and attainable goals for students and ensuring that teachers and students are supported in these efforts. It will also require meaningful collaboration among community organizations and leaders, parents, and the school. The success of the school must become the success of the

It was my grandmother who I told that black people must work twice as hard for the opportunities that other people get for just showing up. She said this to me over the phone when I was beginning my senior of high school and had not yet turned in college applications. My grandmother had never gone to college or finished high school. She worked on a plantation on a small island in the Caribbean until she moved to St. Thomas in the fifties and became a seamstress. She came from a modest household but realized the importance of education early. I believe that knowledge is the first step to improving your situation whether you are white, black or blue. If I had to do it all over again, I would have kept my head down and stayed focus until I achieved

The opportunities to make a difference and shape a different future for students of color is possible. Breaking the cycle of a negative start on education, gives children a substantial head-start early in development years. Providing students with specialized subject matter teachers and linking home and school are ways to start to close the gap on education. One amazing fact that I learned is currently in my daughter’s high school 14 percent of African-American student have D’s and

It is a beneficial resource for teachers to use when considering the way in which they treat students from different backgrounds and races. The book outlines how white teachers make assumptions about the work ethic and capabilities of students of color and subsequently lower their expectations for those students. While it is largely a resource for the professional development of teachers, it can also be modified for classroom use to facilitate discussion among older students about the achievement gap between students of different races. This may lead to further discussions about the constitutionality of the distribution of funds and resources to schools which further widens the achievement gap. The teacher can extract passages, important statistics, and other pieces of information for students to examine, analyze, and apply to their discussions about the Constitution. It provides a powerful real world example of ways in which the Constitution impacts our everyday lives, while also exploring whether the amendments in the Bill of Rights are being upheld. Multiplication is for white people is a valuable resource to push teachers to consider their own performance and would also be beneficial to use in discussions about the Constitution with

In the late sixteenth century, Francis Bacon said “Knowledge is power.” Education back then some kids didn’t have a chance to attend school. Schools were desegregated and depended on the color of skin. In 1945, African Americans had to go to the worst financed schools to separate education and the general standard of lifestyle in American. In 1968, more than 30% of all African Americans children went to public schools that were 90% non-white.

Why do European American parents report less frequent effort to manage their children’s time at home, compared to Hispanic/Latino and African American parents?

For centuries, America has wondered why minority students consider rhyming and playing basketball more important than receiving a proper education. The theme of my research is to discover why there is such a vast educational achievement gap between minority and Caucasian students. Many Americans are aware that a educational gap exists among today’s students but they do nothing to bring attention to it. This proposal will inform one of alarming statics that are affecting the welfare and future of minority students. For example, African American students representing a majority of the special education population but they only make up 40% of the student population. My research will also tackle key events that contributed to the mediocre education that minority children are currently receiving. For example, in the past, it was illegal to educate African Americans and when it became legal, blacks were treated as second class citizens and placed in impoverished school districts ( Billing, P. 33). African Americans were segregated from their white counterparts and given used textbooks. They were also beaten and murdered for attempting to seek a proper education. This research will analyze factors that are contributing to the poor education of minority students such as moral principles, socio-political, economic status, and racism. It is the year 2014, the amount of time that has past is tremendous but today’s schools are similar to the ones from the past. Minority children are

As time moved on, discussions of Plessy would ensue well into the 20th century. Groups such as the NAACP were established after Plessy’s ruling to help ensure the equal protection and advancements of minority groups. The NAACP was founded in 1909 in New York City by a group of bi-racial individuals seeking better treatment and equality amongst its people. This program came to be after much debate in the African American community over segregation. One such leader was the marveled, Booker T. Washington who claimed that African Americans should accept segregation. He would eventually establish African Americans colleges that are still used today throughout the United States. His most famous establishment was the Tuskegee Institute built in Tuskegee, Alabama. Which at the time was built predominantly for African-Americans as a way to promote educational equality at the higher levels of education. Others such as W.E.B. DuBois believed that the only way for African-Americans to be considered equal was through educational equality. He said that until equal education was given, African American citizens would never have the same opportunities as white people. Thus creating an even larger human rights debate on whether the right to education was fully achieved. Although both had different ideas for the advancements of education, the underlying contribution was that many started to understand the greater issues of Plessy’s ruling. Both men and the NAACP would become

African Americans who has worked their way up should go back into the communities and teach others on how they did. You should want your fellow African American brothers and sisters to prosper and not just become the stereotypical person. You should go back and show them that there is more than just living paycheck to paycheck and their neighborhood they could reach places that no one of color has ever been. I feel like this is especially true towards teachers and administrators in the predominantly African American communities should because they make the huge impact on kids. These kids see them every day and even look up to them so taking the time and teaching them that they shouldn't just settle for a high school diploma, they should want to go for their bachelor's degree so they can work the jobs that they dream of. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, people who have a bachelor’s degree earn more and are less likely to be unemployed than those with an associate’s degree.( “Capella, 2017”) And those who are not African American but who come in contact with African American kids should also help to from personal experiences when seeing all white teachers , I felt that they were the only people that were able to teach since I saw no African American teachers around But my teacher let me know that any and every one can get their education and that just because it's not many people of color in that field that it shouldn’t stop me from doing it. She told me to be