RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Study Finds Black Children Who Are Homeschooled Score Higher on Academic Assessment Tests

This is both a refreshing affirmation of student success and a disturbing commentary on the failure of our schools (private and public) to meet the learning needs of Black students.  As a teacher educator I face this problem all the time. Our university has the second largest education program in Missouri and yet we graduate less than 2% African American teachers (preschool through high school) from our institution every year.  The unfortunate truth is we are the norm, not the exception throughout the majority of US education institutions.  Even with all the diversity training that is "en vogue", our teacher candidates, who are primarily Euro American, middle to working class, often struggle to find middle ground to work across diverse student groups.  And students, who live largely in de facto segregated neighborhoods, experience the same struggles in relating to their White teachers.  The impact of not being socialized to interact regularly in informal and formal contexts across race and class within our society is one of our largest stumbling  blocks.  It is exactly why our country is stained by constantly repeated incidents of institutionalized racial violence.  Ignorance of one another breeds fear which leads to violence.  Since White society is still dominant we unleash that fear in violent terms over and over again.  It is a societal trap that begins and ends in de facto segregation.  Are we doomed to failure as a society?  Is home schooling an indicator of selective self-segregation for survival?  Since integration has not worked? or, in my opinion, was never fully institutionalized throughout our society?

 

 

Cheers,

Jamaine Abidogun

 

 

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Study Finds Black Children Who Are Homeschooled Score Higher on Academic Assessment Tests

				Study Finds Black Children Who Are Homeschooled Scor... Homeschooling is a controversial issue in the African American community. A new study showing the Black students who are homeschooled perform better academical...
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