RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - African Brains in Public Schools: Congrats D. Akindana, SoppoNgwa & Peers.

This study is interesting, but it seems that state and federal laws regarding student privacy may be breached here.  Your research group may have access to names under it design and implementation, but student information is not normally publically displayed.   As a teacher educator, I am advised to never have my students use PK-12 students’ real names in their work even for classroom activities.  As a parent I find it unsettling to see this list of students’ names available to all. 

 

I hope you are working with political groups to make self-identification of African descent included in the school census forms.  It may take time, as you demonstrated it did for Hispanic students, but gains can be made with persistent effort. 

 

Sincerely,

Dr Jamaine Abidogun

 

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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - African Brains in Public Schools: Congrats D. Akindana, SoppoNgwa & Peers.

 

Test Case: The names (below) of High Performing A+ students at Briggs Chaney Middle School - Montgomery County, Maryland. We have the data for other schools.

Hope you can support us in promoting the African Model of Excellence.

If your child is, or if you know a child, making the A List in a Public School, we would be glad to know!

 

Hello All and Happy New Year

 

The 2010 US Census will not capture the growing Continental African population. Just as the Hispanics did in the 1930s, classifications are  results of civic, political and social activism. Jews have ways to document their numbers and influence even though that is no box  to mark that on most forms. Following best efforts,  we are using reasonable ways to highlight the need and advocate for the inclusion of America's most educated population with pull-by-the bootstrap abilities in salient public considerations. The efforts can be time consuming, tiring and frustrating and certainly not a glamorous work. But we know they are vital steps...that is how we got the Office of African Affairs in the District of Columbia and collect data for empirical evidence. 

 

The ramifications are varied from resource allocations, representations, appointments and to classifications for informed public policy decisions. For example, the current law calls for data that provides insights on how students in various demographic groups are making Adequate Yearly Progress. Data indicates that African American and Latino students (on the aggregate) are performing at the lower end while their White and Asian peers (on the aggregate) are higher performers. It is called Achievement Gap.

 

We believe Continental African students with immigrant backgrounds - but included in the African American category - constitute a high performing category (on the aggregate) with no Achievement Gap between students from African immigrant families and their White /Asian peers. The law also states that if there are at least 40 students in a school or 10% of the total student population are members of a demographic group, the students should be classified as a category. 

 

We do random research to test our position. For example, we examine data of high performing students (A+) in a school. The drawback is that we may miss an African student by merely looking at the names. Some names are shared with other ethnic groups. For example,  Marwan is a typical Middle Eastern male name ( Saudi Arabia, Iraq, etc). But since the student's first name is  Lum, a typical female name in Cameroon's NW Region, it triggered more review. Someone knows the family, which made the classification easier to determine. 

 

We have the results for the first quarter in 2010-2011 School Year - for schools in the MCPS. We can do same with other school systems. It requires working with the schools, parents and you - community  members -  to identify all the brain boxes and salute the efforts of our young African scholars.  Below are cursory determination with the names in blue. If you can determine more blues, do it in red and send it through a direct mail. We will make it blue. We are tallying the percentages of Continental African students making the A list in respective public schools - relative to the population in the counties and state. We also use the research as a valuable tool and best practice in including and serving the Continental African population in mainstream activities.  

 

Abebe, Lydia W			1
Aberra, Eyouel M			2
Aberra, Kahleb M			3
Abraham, Leya
Abubakar, Bilal
Abubakar, Nuriyyah A
Adenigbagbe, Beatrice J
Admassu, Adden T
Adu, Ivy E
Afley, Barnabas G
Agbor Nyenty, Junior B
Agyemang, Kofi
Ahmad, Shamail
Ajih, Rebecca C
Ajih, Sarah C
Ajong, Christel
Akindana, Destinee
Akoto, Desmond D
Akuchie, Victor U
Akuya, Ofeoritse G
Albrecht, Allie
Alston, Kevin
Alvarez, Jr, Jorge
Anderson, Alexis K
Anderson, Morgan A
Aneja, Chetveer S
Antar, Rania I
Appiah, Derick
Aquino, Lisseth A
Argaw, Elizabeth
Armbruster, Travis B
Arunkumar, Ebenezer
Atewologun, Oluwaseun A
Atianjoh, Lawson A
Augustin, Krystal K
Awundaga, Mazula T
Awundaga, Ozeyla N
Azenon, Tiffany N
Bader, Shahed N
Bader, Tamer N
Bando, Jackson
Bandyopadhyay, Saatwik
Bartley, Alexandra M
Bartley, James X
Batchelor, Melanie E
Battle, Rudolph G
Bejarano, Belkys R
Bekele, Thomas
Belke, Jared C
Berhanu, Kaleb
Berizzie, Bryce J
Berrios, Oscar A
Berry-Kennedy, Damali K
Blaise, Caleb P
Blanche-Caron, Elie
Bledsoe, Shahzaade Q
Bonaiuti, Jonah H
Bonilla, Elmo A
Bonilla-Arocho, Christopher E
Bopda, Thomas Michel
Borczuch, Rachel P
Borda, Bianca E
Bota, Anthony
Botkin, Tessa
Boyer, Bethany A
Braimoh, Theophilus Ore Oluwa
Brooks, Zaynah
Brown, Aaron N
Brown, Daniel J
Brown, Kelly M
Buresh, Olivia R
Burgess, Kala L
Calhoun, Alexia N
Campbell, Paige E
Cao, Henry L
Cardenas, Sarah V
Carrillo, Rihana A
Carter, Julian
Case, Caroline M
Case, Jennifer
Castro, Idalis E
Chadwick, Jared A
Chakroborty, Swagata
Chally, Jackson B
Chavez, Angelica
Chen, Nathan J
Chen, Sunny
Cheng, Jennifer Y
Chheang, Samantha S
Chonai, Arnold A
Chonai, Catherine A
Chu, Ntongacha R
Chung, Jason
Claros, Hemniel
Clermont, Deidra
Connors, Taylor M
Conrad, Jr, Terry E
Conrad, James A
Corkran, Loren E
Cornejo, Erika
Coulibaly, Yelli A
Coviello, Cooper D
Coviello, Jackson D
Cruz, Laura M
Culver, Dominique R
Cuthbert, Naomi
Daisey, Cameron D
Daniel, Paulos H
Darcelin, Marly
Debleecker, Alexis A
Deen, Sarah L
Deen, Shaina E
Deflorimonte, Bryanna M
Dejene, Mekdelawit M
Del Pino, Daniel J
Dela O Zalaya, Juan J
Deleeuw, Andrei
Delgado, Wilfredo
Delsole, Michael D
Dempsie, Zana D
Desmangles, Kaitland R
Dhaba, Asorai
Dickerson, Evin A
Dillingham, Kiandra
Do, Alvin
Doan, Melanie D
Doll, Ellen
Donley, Sarah A
Doore, Merissa
Dorsey, Merekat
Duong, Timothy Suwanee
Durant, Geavona S
Edwards, Durene W
Edwards, Tyler A
Ehrman, Sarah M
Ellis, Madeline
Ermias, Bethany
Escobar, Karen B
Eslin, Kayla N
Essien, Emem F
Estrada, Christopher J
Estrada, Geovanny X
Etwaroo, Govina H
Etwaroo, Govita L
Evans, Jalil D
Ewane, Jenny K
Falcinelli, Jessica M
Falkenstein, Emma K
Fauntleroy, Christopher
Fickett, Meghan R
Fisher, Nailah E
Fitzpatrick, Perrin
Flaherty, Sarah J
Ford, Meagan R
Franklin, Laura C
Franklin, Peter H
Galindo, Katherine D
Galloway, Brandon P
Galvez, Karen J
Gamboa, Nicholas M
Gambrell, Kiev E
Garcia Jr, Wilber O
Garcia, Gisell J
Garcia, Kathleen G
Gassaway, Tracey R
Gebre, Senay T
Georgopoulos, Georgianna
Gerhardt, Jamie C
Giang, Cindy
Gibson, Kailyn C
Gomez, Andres G
Goodenough, Madison E
Granados, Edwin E
Grant, Ajani T
Grayton, Logan Jermayne
Greenhow Iii, Bernard W
Gross, Elizabeth K
Gross, Gregg S
Gruber, Joseph A
Gwan, Jinor O
Hammer, Linnea
Hasan, Anoosha
Hawkins, Markel S
Heeley, Rachel
Herath, Thisara L
Hernandez, Raquel M
Herrera, Alexa M
Herrera, Kaitlyn G
Higgins, Emily T
Hines, Abigail C
Hockaday, Jordan
Hogue, Kaya C
Holland, Jada C
Holliday-Hall, Cimone D
Holman, Mark
Holmes, Scott
Huddle, John
Hung, Brian C
Iduma, Elizabeth
Igwebuike, Precious B
Isolato, Jonathan M
Jackson, Ashley J
Jackson, Joshua
Jacob, Jessica A
Jacobs, Tamir A
Jaiteh, Naffie
James, Jaylon A
Jamison, Jared Kenneth
Janda, Petr
Jang, Saebin
Jani, Akash G
Jean, Sherslie C
Jefferson, Sania I
Johnson, Destiny M
Johnson, Diamond C
Johnson, Kloe A
Johnson, Ryheir L
Johnson, Zachary
Jointer, Leshea S
Jones, Cheldone L
Jones, Danielle
Jones, Kelly E
Joy, Godsee K
Kadangha Bariki, E Cristiona
Kalampanayil, Jancy J
Kalsi, Simran
Kamara, Abdulrassin T
Karodeh, Nima
Kassahun, Seble G
Kaur, Jasjot
Kaur, Simrat
Kenlaw, Grace A
Khan, Miraab Z
Kidane, Aaron K
Kim, Mindy
King, Kayla M
King, Malcolm V
Kirk, Ryan C
Klingner, Katherine
Knox, Kenneth C
Koney, Tiyah-Iman G
Korycinski, Hannah I
Kouyate, Mamadou
Kpolu, Romeo
Kripowicz, Ashley L
Kuffar, Bahati B
Kunze, Savannah C
Kwon, Samuel H
Kyei-Asare, Aaron A
Lall, Prerna
Lambert, Malik J
Lane, David A
Lassiter, Bobby Larry
Lemus, Jackelyn K
Lidiak, Daniel
Lim, Peter J
Livingston, Keith
Lizama, Leslie
Lo, Philip K
Lopes, Melanie
Luckert, Samantha
Mackel, Paige
Madden, Thomas M
Madison, Gregory K
Mahdi, Taaha
Majid, Alina
Mansaray, Brian
Manzo, Caroline M
Mao, Benjamin
Marquez, Oscar S
Marshall, Lisa R
Martin, Andre K
Martinez-Sarabia, Grady E
Massey, Ridhima
Maszkiewicz, Lori K
Mathew, Sonia P
Mathis Jr., Phillipe K
Mathur, Ananya
Matin, Adeeb J
Matthews-Johns, Na'im
Mawun, Lum A
Mballa, Pierre C
Mbami, Ivan J
Mcbride, Caitlin K
Mccaney, Gillian E
Mccaney, Gwyndolyn S
Mccaskey, Camren M
Mcgovern, Shane P
Mckenney, Brianna K
Mckenzie, Fitz Earl A
Mcmullen, Alyssa M
Mcmullen, Brandon M
Mcneal, Lauren J
Mehari, Mary T
Melendez, Princess J
Mendy, Mariatou
Mensah, Nana E
Mesfin, Sehin
Michur, Stephen
Mirza, Fazal A
Mohammed, Khalid
Moldoveanu, Stefan
Money, Kevin P
Montiel-Morale, Alcides
Moore, Aniah L
Moore, Kofoworola O
Moore, Lalebela U
Moore, Mya C
Morales, Aylin M
Morales, Ivania J
Moreno, Diego F
Moreno, Jorge M
Mosleh, Abdul Q
Mulugeta, Japheth T
Muppala, Sindhu P
Negash, Kaleab
Ngo, Linda
Ngo, Michael J
Ngongang Kamlo, Steve A
Nguyen, Chi
Nguyen, Colleen Hien
Nguyen, Kevin C
Nguyen, Mai-Anh
Nguyen, Michelle A
Nguyen, Ninie
Nguyen, Tiffany
Nguyen, Vivian
Njingou, Yasmine S
Oberfield, Catherine A
Odidika, Chizitere
Oduro Boateng, Samuel
Okanume, Angelina I
Okon, Avril E
Olufotebi, Adebukola A
Osei, Henry N
Ott, Mccallah B
Outlaw, Michael Q
Oxley, Joseph F
Pamah, Christopher K
Pamah, Irvin P
Paulsen, Tessa S
Payne, Jaden C
Payton, Cameron W
Payton, Kendall L
Peake, Naysa
Perez, Josalyn N
Perez, Matthew
Peterson, Melinda
Pham, Harry
Pham, Peter D
Pham, Steven T
Philpotts, Shaynel T
Phimphachanh, Sam
Pineda, Cindy M
Pinkney, Ashley N
Poindexter, Brionna
Posada, Maria A
Potts, Avery C
Potts, Colby K
Prather, Alexis Y
Prieto, Brianna S
Prieto, Maria-Gayle S
Prokop, Lily M
Przygocki, Michaela R
Quinn, Cooper
Ramsey, Phillip
Ransom, Lexxus M
Reddy, Medha B
Reed, Samuel T
Rehwoldt, Danielle L
Remy, Theilor Samuel
Reyes, Thalia E
Ribeiro, Charlene
Rivas, Yvonne
Rivera, Cristina A
Rivers, Phyllis A
Roachford, Lauren E
Robinson, Corrin
Robinson, Matthew J
Robinson, Natalie K
Rodriguez, Evelyn
Rojas, Oscar N
Rosales, Sarah J
Rosario, Liliana
Royer, Joselle
Ruckdeschel, Lindsay
Safrane, Ngassa
Saint Jean, Silvy J
Sajus, Moisha
Salazar, Marianne C
Salita, Iris Marie
Sam, Martha
Sam, Mary
Samateh, Mariama
Sams, Joshua N
Sawhney, Geeta
Scaffidi, Samantha
Schiff, Nicole
Sciannella, Alyssa J
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Sejas, Paola
Shah, Aliyah
Shah, Asma
Shah, Maliha
Shawhan, William S
Shen, Justin
Shen, Samuel
Sherrod, Dandre
Shin, Joon
Shin, Stacy
Siddiqui, Atef S
Siddiqui, Daanish Z
Sikri, Shivangi
Simbi, Vyness G
Sinanan, Shannon S
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