Sharon Cohen reports for AP about Urban Prep, an all-boys charter school in Chicago. There are many things that make Urban Prep different, but perhaps the most important one is that 100% of its first graduation class is headed to college. Along the way, boys’ lives have been changed — and very possibly saved. Urban [...]
Try as many have to deny the existence of the “acting white” phenomenon, evidence for it continues to pile up. Stuart Buck’s recent Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation puts the problem front and center. But, when the highly-regarded linguist, author, expert on race relations, and conservative think tank fellow John McWhorter writes about [...]
Holly Hacker and Tawnell Hobbs at the Dallas Morning News report on “black flight” from Dallas schools. This is the quick summary, but you should read the whole thing: Specifically, black parents most often mentioned the following reasons: •The perception that Dallas ISD schools offer an inferior education compared with suburban schools, and that the [...]