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- Kafi Payne
- Username: teachermama
- Location: Oakland, California
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- "Mind the Gap: Why Good Schools are Failing Black Students (54:00 and 59:00)"
- Summary: This documentary won a 2010 Peabody Award. Nationwide, suburban schools are doing a good job educating white students, but those schools are not getting the same results with black and Latino students. This documentary tells the story of a suburban high school with lots of resources and a diverse student body that is struggling to close the minority achievement gap.
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Homeschooling Option for Black Boys
Kafi Payne
Posted on November 03, 2009 at 02:23 AM
This is why I homeschool my African-American sons. My anxiety level went way up just listening to this piece.
I cannot let schools, society, the media . . . anyone . . . decide how smart my sons are. Education is too important.
In our school district, in researching whether all students should be prepared to go to college--all students said they wanted to go to college.