Thanks for the info and I hear you on the poor policy making within this field, but I was not victim blaming. I was saying that given that policy is weak, are there factors that we can address such as the questions I asked. Or is policy making the only thing that can change those. Is there a possibility to improve even with headwind? E.g. how do we create solid family culture, do we need Washington for this? (saw something saying 15% of Asian kids are from single parent household vs 65% of black people). Is this just a higher order derivative of some other policy failure perhaps? To conclude, my point is that there's probably issues we can solve without Washington, endogenously instead of from a macro standpoint. But it's a very hard task to mobilize a cultural movement among millions of people. Just talking outta my ass it probably takes decades or even centuries of small steps, and even harder when you need to break a vicious cycle. A cycles the above mentioned Asians never had to deal with.
Oh I know you weren’t victim-blaming but it can be tempting for some others to do so.
I think accountability has to come from top down b/c these issues are reflexive in nature. Even when SES is accounted for the gap still remains due to racial bias against our children. Black birthrates to single mothers have been decreasing for years. So has birthrates to married blk women which makes it that number high.
The math on Black out of wedlock births
Moreover education is a huge vehicle for avoiding the factors that contribute to that, (I.e. educational attainment is correlated to lower birthrates) so if this education mess is fixed we’d have less of the factors u mentioned. But it’s hard to fix them from the bottom up when our school systems are working against AA students particularly due to poverty and low quality of schools most blks are concentrated in.
Data tool shows school poverty leads to racial achievement gap
There are programs that teach poor parents to engage with their children, but those don’t account for parents working 2-3 jobs. And even the best blk parents who can’t afford private school are still at the mercy of the deleterious effects of low quality schools they have to send their children too. We can preach to the masses to spend more time with children but ur child spends 14 years, 8 hours per day, 5 days a week, for 180 days away from u. That is a lot of instructional time wasted if we can’t hold out schools accountable. Short of completely homeschooling or providing tutoring, good parenting isn’t enough to make up for the deficits our children are experiencing in these hellholes.
I also think the content of what they are learning is racist itself and renders AA children completely invisible in a way that we can’t compensate for culturally in the way that immigrant backgrounds can. We are more sensitive to the lack of representation in the curriculum b/c we don’t have the historic and cultural support from a motherland or China to fill in those gaps. Tons of research has been done on the impact of Eurocentricity in educational content. Ming Li won’t care as much b/c he can go to any Asian community and get affirmation of his history, language, peoples from family back home, his communities, their media. Same with Latino families they can turn on Telemundo and get affirmation. And African families. This isn’t true of AA students, which is why culturally relevant pedagogy is so important because a part of learning is seeing urself in the content. Other cultures may not see themselves but their cultural ties to their former lands cover that gap in a way that AAs can’t due to our unique history in this fukked up country.
Lastly, we can’t improve education without improving the profession and we don’t invest enough in our teachers to attract and retain quality leadership. Also teacher education programs need massive reform but are becoming streamlined due to conservative budget cuts. So now ur child’s future teacher might take a couple of courses online, get their certification and be in your child’s classroom within a month. Ready or not.
There’s a LOT to fix and I’m all for starting with parents but economic realities make that route improbable without addressing major social reforms needed.
I haven't taken not one tutoring program
within walking distance of the projects with a reading level equivalent
