Education system fails black pupils

Gerald Cox:

The reality is that more money and better teachers mean little to a black student if his or her parents do not instill a desire for knowledge and create a context for academic success in the home. To quote Wendell Harris, the education committee chairman of the Milwaukee chapter of the NAACP, “We can’t keep making excuses for parents.” Rich school district or not, a child is only as good as the support his or her parents provide.

The number of black students admitted to our university will not substantially increase until black communities and families are unified in a determination to increase it themselves.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 9, 2007 3:38 PM
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