This is a particularly trenchant article for me personally. I ran for Mayor of Pittsburgh in 2001 and my entire platform was based on the notorious de facto racism of the public school system in Pittsburgh. I ran as a Republican; so of course I lost, but I nevertheless had the bull horn to stand up to the silent racism of the teacher un…
This is a particularly trenchant article for me personally. I ran for Mayor of Pittsburgh in 2001 and my entire platform was based on the notorious de facto racism of the public school system in Pittsburgh. I ran as a Republican; so of course I lost, but I nevertheless had the bull horn to stand up to the silent racism of the teacher unions who supported that racism. And, with the help of an African American School Board member, I created Take Your Father To School Day, because father absence is fundamentally destructive to student success. I was also the founding board member of a Charter School in Penn Hills Pa, with a primarily African American student population. I sent my own kids there, and they were the only white kids in their classes. The idea of the charter school was to provide gifted education to children whose families simply were not aware of the options for their bright children. Yes, I see institutional racism in education very clearly, and I am an old white guy college professor. And now with college prices sky-rocketing college is simply unaffordable to the VAST majority of African American kids. Critical Race Theory is a white game. It is itself malicious and racist fraud that demonstrably harms black children, while helping white academics pad their vitae to get tenure. CRT? Phooey! Making college affordable to Black families is the authentic place where our culture needs to demonstrate that Black Lives Really Matter. Increase African American SAT scores by spending the money necessary to improve poor city schools. Affordable high quality Education is the doorway to success, Critical Race Theory is not. When I completed my PhD, I told people I was a radical feminist because I really wanted women to like me and to publish feminist articles for my own vita. I had convinced myself that to change who I was would help women. Then I read Christina Hoff Summers and I saw the light. And I was embarrassed too. You do not need to hit yourself in the head with a hammer to prove that you are a good white man. Do what is right; be a mensch, and be who you are authentically. Yes lots of people will not like you. CRT is fraud and it must end.
I like this article quite a bit, but again it does not necessary lead us to conclude that stress felt by students is predominantly race based. Rural, predominantly white, communities suffer tremendous amount of stress from all sorts of awful causes.
significant difference in the prevalence and expression of PTSD." p 30. This study also does not at all demonstrate that race is the key factor in the negative effects of stress in college. And familial involvement is a positive factor. So I am not convinced that it is race that causes the stress that is correlated with low performance but poverty and familial exposure and understanding of formal education. My own qualitative and therefore not generalizable experience, is kids work much harder when they work for their parents than when they work for anyone else. My kids' teachers would not lose sleep if they gave my kids D's. I would be besides myself, and my children's entire lives would change if that is what it took to rectify that sort of performance.
I have no particular disagreement with any of your critiques/observations and I completely agree with you about sample sizes and quantitative research. And, I agree, of course, that poverty and familial exposure play a big, big part in educational outcomes. I have thoughts, and longitudinal research to contribute to our convo, but I'm exhausted. I'll finish whatever the hell I'm talking about later this week.
As a public high school teacher in Philly for over a decade, I also spent some years believing that a good education and a degree could solve many of our most entrenched social ills. But neither my experience, or the research, bares that out. Instead, as usual, the picture is much more complicated. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1135335.pdf
I am sorry to disagree, but I found qualitative research to highly misleading unless there is quantitative research along with it. As in this case the sample sizes are too small and not nearly enough care has been taken to control for all sorts of extraneous variables, not to mention simple sampling bias. The key problem with CRT is it begins with a hermeneutics of suspicion and finds exactly what it hopes to find. It many ways CRT is itself a conspiracy theory with the most dangerous oddity that the conspirators do not even know they are conspirators. Yes absolutely there is pervasive racism in America, but it is not baked into the cake. It is not systemic. It is systematic in many institutions, educational funding is the most dramatic example. When public education is paid for by real estate taxes, that guarantees that communities with inexpensive homes pay much higher tax rates and still do not raise enough money to pay for adequate education. Zip codes now determine the quality of public school education. 10 mils on a $1.5 million dollar home pays for a much nicer school and much higher paid teachers than 20 mils on a $50,000 home. Systemic racism? No. Pervasive racism? Yes, absolutely. Public education should be paid for by the state or even the federal government not the local school districts.
This is a particularly trenchant article for me personally. I ran for Mayor of Pittsburgh in 2001 and my entire platform was based on the notorious de facto racism of the public school system in Pittsburgh. I ran as a Republican; so of course I lost, but I nevertheless had the bull horn to stand up to the silent racism of the teacher unions who supported that racism. And, with the help of an African American School Board member, I created Take Your Father To School Day, because father absence is fundamentally destructive to student success. I was also the founding board member of a Charter School in Penn Hills Pa, with a primarily African American student population. I sent my own kids there, and they were the only white kids in their classes. The idea of the charter school was to provide gifted education to children whose families simply were not aware of the options for their bright children. Yes, I see institutional racism in education very clearly, and I am an old white guy college professor. And now with college prices sky-rocketing college is simply unaffordable to the VAST majority of African American kids. Critical Race Theory is a white game. It is itself malicious and racist fraud that demonstrably harms black children, while helping white academics pad their vitae to get tenure. CRT? Phooey! Making college affordable to Black families is the authentic place where our culture needs to demonstrate that Black Lives Really Matter. Increase African American SAT scores by spending the money necessary to improve poor city schools. Affordable high quality Education is the doorway to success, Critical Race Theory is not. When I completed my PhD, I told people I was a radical feminist because I really wanted women to like me and to publish feminist articles for my own vita. I had convinced myself that to change who I was would help women. Then I read Christina Hoff Summers and I saw the light. And I was embarrassed too. You do not need to hit yourself in the head with a hammer to prove that you are a good white man. Do what is right; be a mensch, and be who you are authentically. Yes lots of people will not like you. CRT is fraud and it must end.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02673843.2019.1596823?needAccess=true
I like this article quite a bit, but again it does not necessary lead us to conclude that stress felt by students is predominantly race based. Rural, predominantly white, communities suffer tremendous amount of stress from all sorts of awful causes.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=chs_etds
"[regarding race] however, there was not a
significant difference in the prevalence and expression of PTSD." p 30. This study also does not at all demonstrate that race is the key factor in the negative effects of stress in college. And familial involvement is a positive factor. So I am not convinced that it is race that causes the stress that is correlated with low performance but poverty and familial exposure and understanding of formal education. My own qualitative and therefore not generalizable experience, is kids work much harder when they work for their parents than when they work for anyone else. My kids' teachers would not lose sleep if they gave my kids D's. I would be besides myself, and my children's entire lives would change if that is what it took to rectify that sort of performance.
I have no particular disagreement with any of your critiques/observations and I completely agree with you about sample sizes and quantitative research. And, I agree, of course, that poverty and familial exposure play a big, big part in educational outcomes. I have thoughts, and longitudinal research to contribute to our convo, but I'm exhausted. I'll finish whatever the hell I'm talking about later this week.
As a public high school teacher in Philly for over a decade, I also spent some years believing that a good education and a degree could solve many of our most entrenched social ills. But neither my experience, or the research, bares that out. Instead, as usual, the picture is much more complicated. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1135335.pdf
I am sorry to disagree, but I found qualitative research to highly misleading unless there is quantitative research along with it. As in this case the sample sizes are too small and not nearly enough care has been taken to control for all sorts of extraneous variables, not to mention simple sampling bias. The key problem with CRT is it begins with a hermeneutics of suspicion and finds exactly what it hopes to find. It many ways CRT is itself a conspiracy theory with the most dangerous oddity that the conspirators do not even know they are conspirators. Yes absolutely there is pervasive racism in America, but it is not baked into the cake. It is not systemic. It is systematic in many institutions, educational funding is the most dramatic example. When public education is paid for by real estate taxes, that guarantees that communities with inexpensive homes pay much higher tax rates and still do not raise enough money to pay for adequate education. Zip codes now determine the quality of public school education. 10 mils on a $1.5 million dollar home pays for a much nicer school and much higher paid teachers than 20 mils on a $50,000 home. Systemic racism? No. Pervasive racism? Yes, absolutely. Public education should be paid for by the state or even the federal government not the local school districts.
I go a lot further and think that there should be no private education.