CIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION "DISMAL" IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS
HUFFINGTON POST, September 30, 2011-- "Dismal."
Likely not a word ever preferred in an educational setting, but the description the Southern Poverty Law Center found appropriate to assess the state of education about the civil rights movement in the U.S.
Findings from a study -- "Teaching the Movement: The State of Civil Rights Education 2011" -- released this week by the SPLC's Teaching Tolerance program show that nearly three-quarters of states fail at teaching the civil rights movement. An indicator: just 2 percent of high school seniors in 2010 could fully answer a basic question about the Supreme Court's landmark decision in the historic Brown v. Board of Education case.
When given the following quote and asked the following question:
“To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority … that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. … We conclude that in the field of public education separate but equal has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” —1954
Based on the quotation [above] and your knowledge of history, describe the conditions that this 1954 decision was designed to correct. Be as specific as possible in your answer.
Just 2 percent of the 12,000 12th graders who took the NAEP exam could correctly identify the two points the question was seeking to earn a full score of "complete" -- that the case and decision were sparked by segregation, and that the segregation was an issue in schools. They were not required to identify the case as Brown v. Board of Education.
Contrast that with the 73 percent of test-takers who either didn't answer the question at all or left an "inappropriate" response by restating the question or giving irrelevant information.
The study assessed states' curriculum by scoring them based on the comprehensiveness of standards for teaching the civil rights movement. Across the country 16 states do not require any instruction on the movement and 19 cover the topic minimally.
Overall, researchers determined that states "mistakenly see it as a regional matter, or a topic of interest mainly for black students," according to the report. Of the 12 highest scoring states for civil rights education, 9 are from the former Confederacy. The further from the South and the smaller the black population in a state also meant less focus on curriculum including the civil rights movement.
Likely not a word ever preferred in an educational setting, but the description the Southern Poverty Law Center found appropriate to assess the state of education about the civil rights movement in the U.S.
Findings from a study -- "Teaching the Movement: The State of Civil Rights Education 2011" -- released this week by the SPLC's Teaching Tolerance program show that nearly three-quarters of states fail at teaching the civil rights movement. An indicator: just 2 percent of high school seniors in 2010 could fully answer a basic question about the Supreme Court's landmark decision in the historic Brown v. Board of Education case.
When given the following quote and asked the following question:
“To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority … that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. … We conclude that in the field of public education separate but equal has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” —1954
Based on the quotation [above] and your knowledge of history, describe the conditions that this 1954 decision was designed to correct. Be as specific as possible in your answer.
Just 2 percent of the 12,000 12th graders who took the NAEP exam could correctly identify the two points the question was seeking to earn a full score of "complete" -- that the case and decision were sparked by segregation, and that the segregation was an issue in schools. They were not required to identify the case as Brown v. Board of Education.
Contrast that with the 73 percent of test-takers who either didn't answer the question at all or left an "inappropriate" response by restating the question or giving irrelevant information.
The study assessed states' curriculum by scoring them based on the comprehensiveness of standards for teaching the civil rights movement. Across the country 16 states do not require any instruction on the movement and 19 cover the topic minimally.
Overall, researchers determined that states "mistakenly see it as a regional matter, or a topic of interest mainly for black students," according to the report. Of the 12 highest scoring states for civil rights education, 9 are from the former Confederacy. The further from the South and the smaller the black population in a state also meant less focus on curriculum including the civil rights movement.
Hello to All,
Mr. Kigel you and many others do not see it but I do and that is psychologically and subliminally Black Americans want to be sovereign free on a reasonable and fertile portion of this continent that we could call our very own country with borders in my lifetime to worship God, pursue life, liberty, happiness and prosperity in our own way. This resolution is a must and it is divine as well. It is the same resolution inspirit that God rendered on behalf of the children of Israel 4000 years ago.
The two greatest sins committed in the annals of humanity were committed by the Egyptians and White America. And that is mentally enslaving the children of Israel and Black Americans for the sole purpose of slave labor.
The natural spirit and soul that God breathed into man and he became a living soul was destroyed that only God could handle and restore LIFE to the enslaved people. White America cannot undo the destruction of the souls and spirits of Black Americans. Only God could handle and restore LIFE to the enslaved Black American people. The restoring LIFE to Black Americans has begun since God anointed me Black America's first genuine prophet.
Black Americans do not want to continue LIFE as we have been living it under White America since our 500 years of existence. And, since White America orchestrated Black America's existence when White American plantation slave owners bred themselves with their African slaves and every generation that came after Black Americans are a new race of people and is divinely entitled to a reasonable and fertile portion of this continent that we could call our very own country with borders. And, Black America's entitlement is not just from White America orchestrating our existence, but also Black America's contribution to White America and this country becoming the greatest country humanity have witnessed thus far.
So, I understand why Black American children are not interested in a Civil Rights lesson class. Innately Black Americans want to be sovereign free. Nature is pushing the desire to be sovereign free in us the same as when nature pushes a baby to get up and walk because it is natural and that is how God fashioned things.
Everything I say Mr. Richard is going to happen because the legitimacy is there and is divine.