What Can We Do to Bridge the Gap of the Disparities in African Americans Choosing Higher Education?

TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR THE YOUTH ll
BRING BACK SOME OF THE ''WB DUBIOS'' MIND SET !
THE CEITA PROGRAM ! THAT'S HOW WE CAME ..UP !

WE ARE A RISING PEOPLE !

CREAT UPPER BOUND PROGRAMS FOR ADVANCE STUDENTS SI THEY WILL BE IN COLLAGE DURING HIGH SCHOOL ! leave 12th gd w/assoc degree ! 20years old with a ba >

everybody give thought to the cause and stop fighting !


let me deal w robert !

submit this info to some brothers that want to really see the vision come to life ,,and for the sisters to believe in them ! and help !

jenFad this is a beautiful and important subject that is vital for American Growth and the growth of individual American Communites

Irma again begins the Education Process Correctly

"Talk diversity to the students going to the colleges"

The world we live in, Chinese, European, Hindu, and Islaamic Nations are outpacing the
American Educational Communities due to their Learning the DIVERSITY of thought, philosophies and religious ways of Multiple Communites.

My humble take:

1. AAmericans need to Learn something MORE than 1492-1864 Historical thought, philosophies and religious ways.
2. Look at the the Historical thought, philosophies and religious ways of China, the sub continent and Islaamic societies--These are the Economic BOOM areas of our Planet.
3. STOP old paganChristian Divisive--colorWorship.

p.s. I believe teaching all aAmericans--whatever species to read and comprehend is also useful so that they can stay on subject and make some sense.

David, Robert is not the enemy. Robert is Robert and David is David. Take the ego out of it. First step.

Sister Jen, good topic. David points out one way, get as much done during high school as possible. High school is free. I have a friend whose son graduated with enough credits from Advanced Placement exams to save him about a year of college. The problem is, the inner city schools have much less support for these courses than those in the middle and upper class neighborhoods. We need to create equity in the public elementary, middle and high schools. Equity in education needs to exist throughout K-12, for all students, regardless of their economic and social environment. That's a tall order.

Irma's point on community college is extremely relevant. Not only is community college relatively inexpensive, but more schools are offering programs for high school students to take community college courses while still in high school. Again though, we have the economic hurdle. These types of opportunities are more likely to be found in the better neighborhoods.

Public education needs to be funded at the state level. If it continues to be funded at the local level, inequity will persist. Not only that, but we need to address the bureaucracy of the public school system. The more bureaucracy, the more funds are diverted to support the bureaucracy and not the students. Teachers and administrators need to focus on curricula and effective teaching. As it is, too much focus is placed on test scores, metrics, teacher certifications, etc. Test scores mean nothing except to show the lack of funding, and effective curricula and teaching. Certification requirements present a barrier to many who otherwise would make very good teachers.

After taking advantage of Advanced Placement and Community College, students should use the state college or university to get their bachelors degree. It is much more important to have the degree than the name/reputation of the institution it is from. They need to take advantage of the lower tuition costs afforded by state funded institutions.

Finally, all of us need to do whatever we can to foster self-motivation in students. We all need to be examples and mentors to any who are under our care, whether that is through family, religious organizations, social programs, or whatever.

I AM WILLING TO PUT UP MY OWN MONEY TO HELP FUND PROGRAMS WITH A PROVEN TRACK RECORD ! I HAVE FRIENDS THAT WILL HELP WITH FUNDING ALSO ! JUST SEND THE PROJECT
INFO TO ME DIRECTLY ! davidthecloser@gmail.com or specialtopdog@yahoo.com i been trying to sat this mts ago !

David, thanks for the email address. I will send you the contact info for the founder of YMIC. Funding is the most pressing need for this new organization.

Thanks for the dialogue on this blog because this is exactly what I was looking and hoping for.

@ David I agree with you in that the youth training programs like Upward Bound. There should be more programs available for all high school students to introduce them to what higher education is about. I was able to be apart of the Upward Bound programs both my sophmore and junior years in highschool held at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina. It was a huge catalists for exciting me about higher education.

@ Sister Irma & Brother Adam,
Community College is an excellent and far less expensive route to gaing a higher education because some course as you stated can be done for cheaper and will transfer to count towards a degree program. High schools are now allowing students to do college courses while still in high school. As Brother Adam stated more emphasis should be placed on the curriculum and good teaching rather than test scores and bureaucracy.

Just how do we go about that is the question Brother Adam?


@ Brother Rob

I agree that we need to re-train our students to accept a bigger world view outside of the outdated educational system and the archaic philosophy but rather adopt schools of thoughts that emphasize philosophy, reasoning, mathematics, and science rather than using the same old things that aren't working. All kids irrespective of ethnicty need to be competitve with the rest of the world and certainly this isn't happening here in the States.

Jen, the trend is to look more and more to the government to solve our problems. The government can and should tax, can and should provide equitable funding, but they are not educators. So I guess the answer is up to the people, to vote, hold their lawmakers accountable as their representatives, educate themselves, and in general take a more active role. One thing that won't help is to vote a straight party ticket, as I am afraid many here will do. I also picked up a ballot today, and will be researching each candidate individually, and especially on the issue of education.

here goes something that can help right now just follow the info in the link
http://blackinamerica.com/cgi-bin/blog.cgi...

http://cyberlinkacademy.com right now help !

The time to begin to prepare for college is when they start to school. Make them know that finishing school means finishing college.

Do not sent your child to a school that does not teach him about himself. Go all the way back to when man first became a thinking being.

Make sure that the children know someone personally who has achieved in uncommon to black people areas and fields other than sorts.

Make sure the child is associated with children who have the same upbringing and educational goals.

Even before they start to school, buy them books. Build them a personal library.

Parents become involved in the students learning. Minimize television.

Spark their imagination ; create an environment of wonderment and why.

David, the Internet is a great resource for learning, no doubt about it. Unfortunately, those who stand to benefit the most are also those that lack the means for a PC and network access.

@ Sister Irma,
[JEN,the community colleges allow the students each semester to rate their professors and in writing on a form of that class...]

I heard that the White House did a summit regarding the importance of making higher education available to [100% of Americans where they talked about the crucial role community colleges must play to achieve the goal he (President Obama) set for the nation: that by 2020 "the United States will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world."] I do hope that all of us especially African Americans will rise to the challenge and take advantage of the initiatives.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martha-kante...

@ Sister Thomasena,
I agree that we have to start preparing our kids for college, but also we need to be putting aside money for their education before or shortly after they are born such as 529 savings plans, buying a plot of land or a piece of real estate that can be given to your child can be sold to pay for college. Preparing a child early for college and making sure that they are taking college prep courses and making sure they have friends that steer them towards college is a plus.

jenFad, you are so Real and factural--American Taxpayers have paid through the arse for Upward Bound and Public Education. Those are tried and true failures for some American Communities.

Thomasena Martin-Johnson --- you are the Educator Emeritus here and Parents have to expand the minds of their RESPONSIBILITIES, their children.

DJ give your money to Thomasena and she will effect Educational Excellence on any she reaches.

For me, I would have you arrested If you showed up with $100,000,000.00 check at any of my schools.

I have 10 children, and have never relied on Public Education for their growth; my first 3 children Graduated with BS and BA degrees before they were 21 from UCLA and UCSD. I have 2 others in University now and 4 in Private Education just as their older siblings in Schools, I helped build----none of my children or their classmates has EVER, celebrated the public school holidays of halloween, thanksgiving, christmas, valentines day, easter, or good friday. None of my children or their classmates Ever celebrated a birthday in School or attended any dances or hippity hooppity events.

We do Education, Socialization, Responsibilty and Discipline to develop Enlightened American Citizens

And most of my present Students are REALLY African and Americans.......

Robert, the government takes all the citizens money and redistributes it, after supporting themselves first in the process. If we had our own money we could build our own schools. What do we do about that?

robert
a poor white man like you cant see a black man with money ,,,you always find a way to deliver your white trash on something important to black people ! just nasty white trash !

@ Brother Rob,
[American Taxpayers have paid through the arse for Upward Bound and Public Education. Those are tried and true failures for some American Communities.]

Please expound on this statement above and please share some of your successful tactics for education.

This is nothing to be happy about.

Public education was never created to educate. It was created to wearhouse and control the masses. The government has been dumbing down eduction for years. Integration was never done to equalize educaation. It was done to control the learning process of the American African student. They had already done that with the boarding schools for the Natives. When Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and others who became vocal, came on the scene, The government saw what was happening in the separate but equal school and knew that if he wanted to maintain control, he needed to control the education of the people of color.

That is also when the curriculum changed from academic to social issues. Less books and more food and police welfare and fixing the crime problem. I have done the research and hope to get the information out soon. It seems that everybody knows this except American Africans. This is the reason I keep saying that we need to take over the education of our children. Nothing will change unless WE take charge of OUR FUTURE. We need to develope the mind set that WE ARE RESPONSIBILE FOR OUR OWN FUTURE, (OUR CHILDREN) AND WEARING (JORDONS ISN'T IT.

@ Sister Thomasena,
Thank you very much because I realized long ago that I needed to be my child's first teacher especially with the emphasis that has been placed on scores and mor test scores. I want you to list resources or websites that African American parents can use to help supplement their children's learning. Please give any other helpful information that you have here.

I found a site that for parents in Chicago called Teach America's Children which has the aime of educating children in underserved communities in Chicago. http://www.teachamericaschildren.com/about...

Then there is Teach For America Teach For America corps members and alumni are leading some of the most successful efforts to close the achievement gap in communities nationwide http://www.teachforamerica.org/mission/gre...

Yes, Sister Jen,
I will work on that you you.

My Sista... Thomasena... thank you.... I just had a devistating time in my philosophy class.... right about now... Im feeling a little Black Pantherish!!! Irma... I must chant.... Jen I am about to have a Raw Hide Moment.... so I will depart from BIA tonight... and try to regroup....

Sister Jen, re: my previous comment was to David, who noted that Robert is no longer with us. So it looks like I was responding to something else.

@ Brother Adam,
No worries.

@ Sister Thomasena,
I thank you and I will look forward to the information. In the meanwhile check out the links that I posted in my response to you. I think Teach for America is an excellent way to help bridge the education inequalities among minority achievement. What do you think?

@ SIster Cynthia,
Keep your head up and hang in there sistah!

...oops, money borrowed from CHINA! (SMILE)

@ADAM, what money who do you tinke our country is north Korea getting our tax money or Israel or Iraq or pakistan? !?...

Out here in Ca. our state can not afford to pay teachers...which actually address what you just said...only our governor BORROWED the money from the schools and could not pay it back so to balance this he laid of 7,000 teachers before the fall school year...

I am sure tis never made the mass media because our governor is a republican and there is no way they could pin tis one on our president like they did these years and years of wars. (nup)

ROBERT, i HAD TO LAUGH AT YOU MENTIONING ALL OF THOSE 'pagan' celebrations and offecial paid holidays in America...as it only served to remind me of just how we refuse to teach truth and facts in our public educational systems..aka ...instutitional racism educational systems. (smile)

@BIA & JEN SO SORRY BUT I BELIEVE IT TO BE MY DUTY TO MY PEOPLE TO FORCE THE TRUTH ON TO THEM BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. (SMILE)

@THOMASENA, AFTER WRITTING MY LAST BLOG...IT HIT ME WHO IN BETWEEEN THE COMPAINING AND PLAYING THE VICTIM...HOW MANY OF US KNOW THAT MANY, MANY THE STATE OF CA.'S MONEY PROBLEMS IS BECAUSE THE REPUBLICANS HAD PUT A BLACK MAN OUT IN FRONT TO GET RID OF AFFIRMATIVE-ACTIONS...AND, THE THREE STRIKES LAW THAT CAUSED A PRIVATE PRISON BUILDING BOOM AND CATERED FOOD FOR THE INMATES?!?
...OH AND GETTING CAUGHT FRAUDING MEDICAL FOR RPAYING PRISNOR'S DOCTORS FOR NOT EVEN TREATING THEM SO THEY JUST DIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(BUT, MAYBE WE ARE JUST TOO, TOO BUSY TALKING ABOUT THERE ARE MORE BLACK MALES IN PRISON THEN THEY DYING FOR LACK OF MEDICAL CARE...H-U-H?

NOT HAVING AS MANY NONWHITE STUDENTS AND THE ORIENTALS KEEPING ON SETTING UP THE GPA BAR THAT NON PEOPLE OF COLOR COULD REACH...

TOO MANY OF THOSE POSITIONS OF HOLDING A SEAT FOR MY NEXT FAMILY MEMBER AND SO I AM SURE YOU WILL DO TIS I WILL DONATE/ TAKE A 'CHAIR' ECT. WENT RIGHT OUT OF THE WINDOW...??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!? AGAIN ONE WILL NOT SEE THISON ANY OF THESE CNN BIA HISTORY LESSONS SO SOME ONE LIKE YOU AND IF YOU REALLY WANT TO HELP YOURS OR ANY BLACK CHILD BE ABLE TO GET HIGHER EDUCATION...

WILL HAVE TO REEDUCATE YOUR SELVES BEFORE THEY MANAGE TO GET A MAJORITY BACK IN d.c. AND KEEP MORE OF US NOT BEING ABLE TO BE ABLE TO RISE ABOVE THE PLAYING THE VICTIM AND DOING SOMETHINGS TO HELP OUR OWN LOCAL COMMUNITY CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (N-U-P)

JEN,the community colleges allow the students each semester to rate their professors and in writing on a form of that class which is taken very seriously by the administrations. (smile)

1. Please tell them to keep their grades up and to live for the long terms but most of all start preparing for college a long time ahead...

2. Talk direstly to the students going to the colleges they want to atten and find out all of the programs offered to help them with their finances...I stress talk to the student and not limite themsleves to counselors, because the students most likely have learned their best lessons by makingmistakes.

3. Make your community college your first step, ot only can some states like here a high school student can attend there if 16 and loder at the same time as highschool if only just one class at a time, be sure that the calss you take will transfer to the 4 year college you want to go to...

if one does this they can be part time 4 year college students and still get out of there ahead of time ...as much as 2 years in some cases. these probrams are made for low income students and can help you not have to get student loans for life. ..

TRY IT YOU MIGHT LIKE IT, "I" DID.(smile)

And, another example of going to community college. community colleges tend to have professors wo just love to teach and have time to give the individual student the attention and help that those so young needs. tisis a great transision for teens.

In 4 year colleges teh student can go into education shock caused by sitting in lecture classes for maybe two hours listening to the professors give the lecture on what is in one of the many differents you have to study for just taht one calss...there is not personal contact between the teacher and the student unless by appointments.

Something like this can cause one to feel as if they are invisiable and unwanted on top of being away from friends, family and a familuar enviornment all at once.

(smile)

Our president is speaking right now 9and just before his going to a meeting ) on this issue of how to help our children with their college educations and if anyone missed this then it will most likely be shown on c-span later today.(smile)

thanks so much for this post Jen.(smile)