http://brooklynian.com/forum/brooklyn-politics/educational-proficiency-of-black-students-lags-behind en-US Sat, 18 May 2013 21:29:44 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://brooklynian.com/forum/search.php http://brooklynian.com/forum/brooklyn-politics/educational-proficiency-of-black-students-lags-behind/page/2#post-762818 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:51:08 +0000 whynot_31 762818@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ <p>This article profiles an administrator who has been given permission to experiment in a CH school. Among other things, he gets rid of middle management: </p> <p><a href="http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130107/crown-heights/crown-heights-school-adopts-new-model-of-education" rel="nofollow">http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130107/crown-heights/crown-heights-school-adopts-new-model-of-education</a> </p> http://brooklynian.com/forum/brooklyn-politics/educational-proficiency-of-black-students-lags-behind/page/2#post-761657 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:27:22 +0000 whynot_31 761657@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ <p>Policy Briefing: Keeping Middle School Students on Track for High School Graduation</p> <p>December 5, 2012<br /> 4:00 PM<br /> Free</p> <p>The middle school years, from grades 6-8, are an important stage in a child's social and educational development and lay the foundation for a student's long-term academic success. This CCC Policy Briefing will discuss ways educators are working to identify struggling middle school students and support them in preparing for a successful transition to high school and beyond graduation. </p> <p>The scheduled speakers include:</p> <p>•Michael Selkis, Director, School Development and Support, and Director/Network Leader, FHI 360 Partnership Support Organization<br /> •A representative from the New School for Leadership and the Arts (MS 244, Bronx)<br /> •Calvin Hastings, Senior Director for Middle School Quality, New York City Department of Education<br /> READ MORE. </p> <p>Event Location<br /> Citizens' Committee for Children<br /> 105 East 22nd Street, 7th Floor<br /> New York, NY 10010</p> <p>to RSVP: <a href="http://action.voices.org/site/Calendar/?view=RSVP&amp;id=104161&amp;autologin=true" rel="nofollow">http://action.voices.org/site/Calendar/?view=RSVP&amp;id=104161&amp;autologin=true</a> </p> http://brooklynian.com/forum/brooklyn-politics/educational-proficiency-of-black-students-lags-behind/page/2#post-761330 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:23:51 +0000 armchair_warrior 761330@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ <p>When would black america and white liberals start looking at the cultural issues affecting black kids?</p> <p>I was in public school got made fun of cause i was learning and beaten etc..</p> <p>Instead of looking for enemies and problems of racism. One should look at one self and try to better one self. </p> <p>Who cares about racist, I been spat at and beaten by racist etc.. that didn't stop being for bettering myself. </p> http://brooklynian.com/forum/brooklyn-politics/educational-proficiency-of-black-students-lags-behind/page/2#post-761325 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:55:34 +0000 armchair_warrior 761325@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ <blockquote><p><cite>whynot_31 <a href="http://brooklynian.com/forum/brooklyn-politics/educational-proficiency-of-black-students-lags-behind/page/2#post-760292">said</a>:</cite><br /> Sunday's NYT contained an article that discussed the skills gap between children of poor parents, and those of professionals. Vocabulary was the the focus:</p> <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/nyregion/for-poor-schoolchildren-a-poverty-of-words.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/nyregion/for-poor-schoolchildren-a-poverty-of-words.html?_r=0</a></p> </blockquote> <p>bias reporting. Asians here in NYC are unlike their Californian counterparts are mostly from poor backgrounds and their parents aren't educated.<br /> yet they do very well.</p> <p>also Caribbean and African kids do better too. </p> <p>then native black and hispanic kids. </p> <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/education/a-grueling-admissions-test-highlights-a-racial-divide.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/education/a-grueling-admissions-test-highlights-a-racial-divide.html</a> </p> http://brooklynian.com/forum/brooklyn-politics/educational-proficiency-of-black-students-lags-behind/page/2#post-760832 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 14:19:29 +0000 whynot_31 760832@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ <p>very good read....</p> <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/sunday-review/how-prisoners-make-data-look-good.html?_r=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/sunday-review/how-prisoners-make-data-look-good.html?_r=1</a> </p> http://brooklynian.com/forum/brooklyn-politics/educational-proficiency-of-black-students-lags-behind/page/2#post-760721 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:03:09 +0000 whynot_31 760721@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ <p>This article discusses how prepared NYC students the pass the Regents tests are for college:</p> <p><a href="http://www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/regents2012.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/regents2012.pdf</a></p> <p>It doesn't break the numbers out by hue, income, or any other criteria. As a result it provides a nice comparision group (i.e. baseline) for studies that do wish to type about such correlations.</p> <p>Like this one: <a href="http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20121024/new-york-city/most-black-latino-students-unprepared-for-college-study-says" rel="nofollow">http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20121024/new-york-city/most-black-latino-students-unprepared-for-college-study-says</a> </p> http://brooklynian.com/forum/brooklyn-politics/educational-proficiency-of-black-students-lags-behind/page/2#post-760292 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:37:10 +0000 whynot_31 760292@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ <p>Sunday's NYT contained an article that discussed the skills gap between children of poor parents, and those of professionals. Vocabulary was the the focus:</p> <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/nyregion/for-poor-schoolchildren-a-poverty-of-words.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/nyregion/for-poor-schoolchildren-a-poverty-of-words.html?_r=0</a> </p> http://brooklynian.com/forum/brooklyn-politics/educational-proficiency-of-black-students-lags-behind/page/2#post-759999 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:30:09 +0000 whynot_31 759999@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ <p>The child trauma approach is beginning to be used:</p> <p><blockquote><cite>NYT&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;</cite></p> <p>By David Brooks New York Times September 27, 2012</p> <p>In the 1990s, Vincent Felitti and Robert Anda conducted a study on adverse childhood experiences. They asked 17,000 mostly white, mostly upscale patients enrolled in a Kaiser H.M.O. to describe whether they had experienced any of 10 categories of childhood trauma. They asked them if they had been abused, if their parents had divorced, if family members had been incarcerated or declared mentally ill. Then they gave them what came to be known as ACE scores, depending on how many of the 10 experiences they had endured.</p> <p>The link between childhood trauma and adult outcomes was striking. People with an ACE score of 4 were seven times more likely to be alcoholics as adults than people with an ACE score of 0. They were six times more likely to have had sex before age 15, twice as likely to be diagnosed with cancer, four times as likely to suffer emphysema. People with an ACE score above 6 were 30 times more likely to have attempted suicide.</p> <p>Later research suggested that only 3 percent of students with an ACE score of 0 had learning or behavioral problems in school. Among students with an ACE score of 4 or higher, 51 percent had those problems.</p> <p>In Paul Tough’s essential book, “How Children Succeed,” he describes what’s going on. Childhood stress can have long lasting neural effects, making it harder to exercise self-control, focus attention, delay gratification and do many of the other things that contribute to a happy life.</p> <p>Tough interviewed a young lady named Monisha, who was pulled out of class by a social worker, taken to a strange foster home and forbidden from seeing her father for months. “I remember the first day like it was yesterday. Every detail. I still have dreams about it. I feel like I’m going to be damaged forever.”</p> <p>Monisha’s anxiety sensors are still going full blast. “If a plane flies over me, I think they’re going to drop a bomb. I think about my dad dying,” she told Tough. “When I get scared, I start shaking. My heart starts beating. I start sweating. You know how people say ‘I was scared to death’? I get scared that that’s really going to happen to me one day.”</p> <p>Tough’s book is part of what you might call the psychologizing of domestic policy. In the past several decades, policy makers have focused on the material and bureaucratic things that correlate to school failure, like poor neighborhoods, bad nutrition, schools that are too big or too small. But, more recently, attention has shifted to the psychological reactions that impede learning — the ones that flow from insecure relationships, constant movement and economic anxiety.</p> <p>Attention has shifted toward the psychological for several reasons. First, it’s become increasingly clear that social and emotional deficits can trump material or even intellectual progress. Schools in the Knowledge Is Power Program, or KIPP, are among the best college prep academies for disadvantaged kids. But, in its first survey a few years ago, KIPP discovered that three-quarters of its graduates were not making it through college. It wasn’t the students with the lower high school grades that were dropping out most. It was the ones with the weakest resilience and social skills. It was the pessimists.</p> <p>Second, over the past few years, an array of psychological researchers have taught us that motivation, self-control and resilience are together as important as raw I.Q. and are probably more malleable.</p> <p>Finally, pop culture has been far out front of policy makers in showing how social dysfunction can ruin lives. You can turn on an episode of “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,” about a train wreck working-class family. You can turn on “Alaska State Troopers” and see trailer parks filled with drugged-up basket cases. You can listen to rappers like Tyler, The Creator whose songs are angry howls from fatherless men.</p> <p>Schools are now casting about, trying to find psychological programs that will help students work on resilience, equanimity and self-control. Some schools give two sets of grades — one for academic work and one for deportment.</p> <p>And it’s not just schools that are veering deeper into the psychological realms. Health care systems are going the same way, tracing obesity and self-destructive habits back to social breakdown and stress.</p> <p>When you look over the domestic policy landscape, you see all these different people in different policy silos with different budgets: in health care, education, crime, poverty, social mobility and labor force issues. But, in their disjointed ways, they are all dealing with the same problem — that across vast stretches of America, economic, social and family breakdowns are producing enormous amounts of stress and unregulated behavior, which dulls motivation, undermines self-control and distorts lives.</p> <p>Maybe it’s time for people in all these different fields to get together in a room and make a concerted push against the psychological barriers to success.</blockquote></p> <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/opinion/brooks-the-psych-approach.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/opinion/brooks-the-psych-approach.html</a> </p> http://brooklynian.com/forum/brooklyn-politics/educational-proficiency-of-black-students-lags-behind/page/2#post-758243 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:38:31 +0000 whynot_31 758243@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ <p>Wait, you mean teachers are just like everyone else? </p> <p>After all , most HR studies I have read state that the most productive employees (regardless of the field) leave as a result of things other than compensation, especially when they are mid-career. </p> <p>By focusing on work conditions and not compensation, the study funded by Carnagie seems to confirm those findings. It seems to imply that many schools are simply miserable places to work, and many teachers/employees leave in search of someplace better, not necessarily In search of more $. </p> http://brooklynian.com/forum/brooklyn-politics/educational-proficiency-of-black-students-lags-behind/page/2#post-758239 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:07:01 +0000 xlizellx 758239@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ <p>I was literally just saying to my husband yesterday that if I never hear the comment that good teachers leave because they don't get bonuses or whatever again it would still be too soon.</p> <p>Good teachers don't leave because they don't get bonuses. They leave because they are treated like crap by kids/parents/admin/the public and treated like incompetent people rather than professionals. They are abused in subtle ways - good at management? Get all the hard to handle kids piled in your class so worse teachers don't have to try to manage them. Really strong reading teachers? Get all of the struggling readers and ELL students while the other teachers get stronger readers. In both cases, guess whose ridiculous data will look better? The worse teacher with the easier kids. THAT is why good teachers leave - abused and disrespected. </p> http://brooklynian.com/forum/brooklyn-politics/educational-proficiency-of-black-students-lags-behind/page/2#post-758230 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:46:03 +0000 whynot_31 758230@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ <p>This study says urban school districts fail to reward good teachers, so they leave.</p> <p>It implies that this creates an environment of mostly underperforming teachers</p> <p><a href="http://carnegie.org/news/press-releases/story/news-action/single/view/study-finds-urban-schools-often-neglect-top-teachers-while-keeping-weaker-ones/" rel="nofollow">http://carnegie.org/news/press-releases/story/news-action/single/view/study-finds-urban-schools-often-neglect-top-teachers-while-keeping-weaker-ones/</a> </p> http://brooklynian.com/forum/brooklyn-politics/educational-proficiency-of-black-students-lags-behind/page/2#post-753613 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:17:58 +0000 whynot_31 753613@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ <p>A local effort that takes place in Cypress Hills (a rough section of Brooklyn...), also had success.</p> <p><blockquote>New York City’s College Access and Success Initiative (CAS), focuses on improving the odds of success for young people who have graduated from failing high schools, are recent immigrants, or who have dropped out and then attained a GED. </p> <p>Begun in 2004, it demonstrates how colleges and community organizations can integrate education and youth development to improve student success.</blockquote><br /> .<br /> .<br /> .<br /> <blockquote>The challenges are great. Three-fourths of CUNY<br /> community college freshman require remediation,<br /> and these needs are greatest among those who, like<br /> CAS students, have attended a weak high school or dropped<br /> out and passed the GED (Foderaro 2011). Clearly, stronger<br /> preparation will be necessary to enable these students to<br /> succeed in college. In particular, GED programs will need major<br /> reform before they prepare students effectively for college<br /> (Garvey &amp; Grobe 2011). </blockquote></p> <p>The full report:<br /> <a href="http://www.jff.org/sites/default/files/BestOfTwoWorlds_032112.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.jff.org/sites/default/files/BestOfTwoWorlds_032112.pdf</a> </p> http://brooklynian.com/forum/brooklyn-politics/educational-proficiency-of-black-students-lags-behind/page/2#post-753132 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:55:08 +0000 whynot_31 753132@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ <p><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/538566_3091815859987_1401720110_51642605_790897061_n.jpg"></p> <p><blockquote>Some folks have no faith in the educational system, but Urban Prep Academy on Chicago's south side must be doing something right. Once again, 100% of its 2012 graduating seniors are heading off to college in the fall. And by the way, this school is the only all-Black, all-male public prep school in Chicago!</p> <p>This is the third year in a row that the school has achieved the feat thanks to hard working teachers and parents and of course...the amazing students.</p> <p>The school started with kids whose futures had been left for dead by their public schools: Only four percent of the school's incoming freshmen were reading at grade level when they arrived on campus.</blockquote></p> <p><a href="http://www.urbanprep.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.urbanprep.org/</a> </p> http://brooklynian.com/forum/brooklyn-politics/educational-proficiency-of-black-students-lags-behind/page/2#post-751999 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:44:46 +0000 whynot_31 751999@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>When school officials handed out copies of The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, they said they hoped students would connect with the abolitionist’s struggle learning to read at a time when African-Americans were largely prohibited from becoming literate.</p> <p>That’s exactly what 13-year-old Jada Williams did, drawing a parallel between Douglass’ experience and those of many of her classmates in the City School District. And in an essay that she turned in at School 3, she compared illiteracy among city school students about 75 percent can not read at a level appropriate for their age to a modern day form of slavery.</blockquote></p> <p><blockquote> “When I find myself sitting in a crowded classroom where no real instruction is taking place I can say history does repeat itself,” Jada wrote in her essay, according to the Democrat and Chronicle.</p> <p>“I feel like not much has changed. Just different people. Different era. The same old discrimination still resides in the hearts of the white man.”</blockquote></p> <p>Jada is 13.</p> <p><a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/13-yr-old-jada-williams-mistreated-by-rochester-city-school-district-call-rcsd-complain-about-this-injustice?utm_medium=facebook&amp;utm_source=share_petition&amp;utm_term=autopublish" rel="nofollow">http://www.change.org/petitions/13-yr-old-jada-williams-mistreated-by-rochester-city-school-district-call-rcsd-complain-about-this-injustice?utm_medium=facebook&amp;utm_source=share_petition&amp;utm_term=autopublish</a> </p> http://brooklynian.com/forum/brooklyn-politics/educational-proficiency-of-black-students-lags-behind/page/2#post-750906 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:15:14 +0000 whynot_31 750906@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ <p>A well written article on just how far behind the average low income student is in elementary school, appeared in today's NYT:</p> <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/nyregion/for-poorer-students-an-attempt-to-let-new-experiences-guide-learning.html?_r=1&amp;ref=education" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/nyregion/for-poorer-students-an-attempt-to-let-new-experiences-guide-learning.html?_r=1&amp;ref=education</a> </p> http://brooklynian.com/forum/brooklyn-politics/educational-proficiency-of-black-students-lags-behind/page/2#post-750813 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:03:40 +0000 whynot_31 750813@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ <p>Today's NYT argues that the achievement gap between low income students and high income students is where we should focus, but we instead focus on the gap based on race....</p> <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/education/education-gap-grows-between-rich-and-poor-studies-show.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/education/education-gap-grows-between-rich-and-poor-studies-show.html</a></p> <p>It's a pretty good article, but I must say I remain surprised that Charles Murray is quoted. This means he survived being labelled a fan of eugenics back in the 1990s by the academic left. </p> http://brooklynian.com/forum/brooklyn-politics/educational-proficiency-of-black-students-lags-behind/page/2#post-743558 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:51:30 +0000 whynot_31 743558@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ <p>PBS, NEA, Open Society, et al apply their lens to the problem again.</p> <p>....they put their focus on those least likely to to succeed: males.</p> <p><a href="http://www.tooimportanttofail.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.tooimportanttofail.com/</a> </p> http://brooklynian.com/forum/brooklyn-politics/educational-proficiency-of-black-students-lags-behind/page/2#post-736175 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:56:52 +0000 whynot_31 736175@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://m.youtube.com/?rdm=4n9dh4ohm#/watch?v=NrIIM-Vhz9M" rel="nofollow">http://m.youtube.com/?rdm=4n9dh4ohm#/watch?v=NrIIM-Vhz9M</a> </p> http://brooklynian.com/forum/brooklyn-politics/educational-proficiency-of-black-students-lags-behind/page/2#post-733674 Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:27:58 +0000 whynot_31 733674@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ <p>Correct: a parent led revolution which puts all of the onus on the schools and taxpayers is doomed to fail.</p> <p>I suspect that Smiley and West know that real change will only come as result of having everyone on board.</p> <p>Until then, Charter Schools seem to be the rage.</p> <p>BTW, nice piece AW. </p> http://brooklynian.com/forum/brooklyn-politics/educational-proficiency-of-black-students-lags-behind/page/2#post-733673 Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:19:04 +0000 armchair_warrior 733673@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ <p>my whole point is this is not a 3rd world country, tons of money is spent on education. you can learn if you wish and work for it yourself. don't throw more money on the problem. when is it enough? </p> <p>people can't blame oh not enough money on education etc... when compare to 3rd world, these kids are getting a ton of funding. yet i'm sure with the money spent on 3rd world educations go farther than the kids here. kids and families here are too entitled. </p>