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Defend America on Tuesday, December 22, 2009 12:14:56 PM
Black Education
by Walter E. Williams
Detroit's (predominantly black) public schools are the worst in the
nation and it takes some doing to be worse than Washington, D.C. Only 3
percent of Detroit's fourth-graders scored proficient on the most
recent National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) test, sometimes
called "The Nation's Report Card." Twenty-eight percent scored basic
and 69 percent below basic. "Below basic" is the NAEP category when
students are unable to demonstrate even partial mastery of knowledge
and skills fundamental for proficient work at their grade level. It's
the same story for Detroit's eighth-graders. Four percent scored
proficient, 18 percent basic and 77 percent below basic.
Michael Casserly, executive director of the D.C.-based
Council on Great City Schools, in an article appearing in Crain's
Detroit Business, (12/8/09) titled, "Detroit's Public Schools Post
Worst Scores on Record in National Assessment," said, "There is no
jurisdiction of any kind, at any level, at any time in the 30-year
history of NAEP that has ever registered such low numbers." The
academic performance of black students in other large cities such as
Philadelphia, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles is not much better than
Detroit and Washington.
http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/12/23/black_education