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I'd love to see academic excellence become a core value of African-American culture to the point where they drop the hyphenation. Until it does, having academic competition in the community is a good bridge. My two cents.
Point well taken and certainly worthy of consideration and discussion.
My gut instincts tell me, however, that as long as there IS an African American community that sees itself separate from society at large, academic excellence is not likely to become a priority.
I have heard people tell me black children did better in school before integration, is this really true?
imho- probably not.The schools until Plessy vs. Ferguson ( 1898 I think) and seprate but equal, were not equal and I am not sure what % would have gone to high school in their economies ala the environment they lived in, even in the north, Brown was in 54 so it would be interesting to see the correlations. Post Brown vs. the numbers before.
I don't think you'll find anything and would be happy to be proved wrong, becasue of the change in society;
1910 and 1930, enrollment in secondary schools increased almost 400 percent. The proportion of fourteen- to-seventeen-year olds in high school increased from 10.6 percent in 1901 to 51.1 percent in 1930 and 71.3 percent in 1940. Graduation rates remained low but still rose from 29.0 percent in 1930 to 50.8 percent in 1940. The number of African-American teens in high school was lower, but also rose at a steady rate and by the early 1950s, more than 80 percent of African Americans aged fourteen to seventeen were enrolled in school.
Teenagers - Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
The question I think today's environment after 40 some odd years of AA, quotas ( what we see in the OP and what I posted ala Dayton) and throwing money at the school system, where are we overall ala minority graduation and where we are going. Even graduation may not be the best statistic imho becasue of grade inflation and "social promotion" per grade etc.
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