Academic achievement Quote by Beverly Daniel Tatum

“Unfortunately for Black teenagers, those cultural stereotypes do not usually include academic achievement.”

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

“McWhorter claims that low black educational achievements are not the result of racism but of an attitude within the black community that academic achievement…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

Young people are constantly absorbing - through media, textbooks, and policy - the myths of American exceptionalism; for black children, this means that what…

— Clint Smith

“The so-called education of Negro college graduates leads them to throw away opportunities which they have and to go in quest of those which…

— Carter G. Woodson

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

— Alphonso Jackson

The final test of Afro-American studies will be the extent to which they rid the minds of whites and blacks alike of false learning,…

— Jay Saunders Redding

It's down to schools to educate children about their history, especially black history.

— Ashley Walters

I think for what success looks like for me, it is a world in which you can look at the achievement scores, the academic…

— Michelle Rhee

“An unwillingness to associate with blacks has long been considered a sign of lower-class closed-mindedness, but a 2006 study by Michael Emerson and David…

— Jared Taylor

African American students have less access to algebra and more access to seclusion and restraint than do their white peers. The significant disparity in…

— Chaka Fattah

The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding…

— Barack Obama

“I believe our education system as a whole has not integrated the histories of all people into our education system, just the Eurocentric view…

— Ronald Takaki