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Yvettep
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Post Number: 1921
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 01:43 pm: | 
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Community College Presidents And Congressional Black Caucus Join Forces To Reverse Decline In Black Male Enrollment
http://www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_7235.shtml
Alarmed by the declining number of Black males seeking higher education, the Presidents’ Round Table, a group of Black community college presidents, has mobilized to tackle that crisis.
To that end, members of the Round Table participated in sessions with titles like “The Vanishing Male: Minority Males in Higher Education,” and “Ensuring Success for African American Males at Community Colleges” at the 2007 American Association of Community Colleges convention, which is being held in Tampa, Fla., through Tuesday.
The Round Table also met with members of the Congressional Black Caucus in February in an effort to form a national action plan to effect a turnaround in the Black male crisis. Dr. Charles A. Taylor, the Round Table’s convener and president of Thomas Nelson Community College in Hampton, Va., says one of his principle policy priorities is getting the Round Table engaged on that issue nationally. The Round Table consists of CEO members of the National Council on Black American Affairs, an AACC council.
Taylor says that up to now, Round Table presidents have been underutilized on a national level, noting many CBC members were “not even aware” that an organization Black CEOs of community colleges existed.
According to The Round Table’s research concerning the dwindling African- American male presence in U.S. colleges, females now make up 60 percent or more of the student body at many majority-Black colleges. Taylor says that the Round Table’s goal is to work with NAFEO and HBCUs as well as the CBC, which plans to put “together committees on dealing with the dwindling African-American male presence in higher education. We wanted to make certain that as they were moving along, that we would be a part of their process.”
“We are hearing that people are tired of talking about this issue, they really want to connect up with somebody who’s doing something,” says Dr. Jennifer Wimbish, a Round Table member and president of Cedar Valley College in Lancaster, Texas.
Taylor said that in the meeting with the CBC, “we volunteered our commitment, and gave our commitment that we would work with them, with other organizations to make certain that this is an issue that we can be a catalyst by moving forward to come up with some answers.”
Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., expressed enthusiasm in the very fact that the Round Table exists and is looking to help turn around the Black male crisis.
“What gives me heart when I meet with a group like the Presidents’ Round Table is to know that we have a group of college administrators and educators who are searching and seeking and looking for answers, looking for ways to be more effective, looking for ways to do things that have not been done,” Davis says.
“There are all kinds of opportunities, and the fact that these men and women, these academicians, these educators are tackling the tough questions and hard issues warms my heart. … I think we’re going to get a lot done.”
--David Pluviose
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Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 9241
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 01:47 pm: |
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I believe we're quickly moving to a point where we might have to put most Black males in military-style boys only schools. |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 4163
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 04:41 pm: |
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I believe we're quickly moving to a point where we might have to put most Black males in military-style boys only schools.
(Now that is the stupidest idea you have ever had. What the hell would that do about educating them? Why don't you put your daughters in one? Better yet put them in a convent with some butt molesting nuns.
Everytime a Negro comes up with doing something else with somebody else's children, it involves some Nazi style, sadistic jail type bullshit.
Why don't you see to your own children and community and stay out of somebody else's business? You ain't gonna do nothing yourself but hide behind the government or somebody and try to bring up some old slavery crap.
Then when they bust out of those places with their newly enhanced disciplines and skills and are killing and raping what will you do then?
I wondered why, when I told older black people I was going away to college they were not impressed.
They know all it does it turn you into Simon Legree. |
Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 2092
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 06:56 pm: |
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Well AMB, I guess bro Chris told you off. I'm sure you're going to take back your suggestion now that Chris has thoroughly and ruthlessly deconstructed it. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! |
Mzuri
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Post Number: 4550
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 08:18 pm: |
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Chris is one funny assed netargro. |
Yvettep
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 09:01 pm: |
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CHris, take a deep breath, relax your facial muscles, put away your floppy discs, and go over to the "...Something Good" thread to share something positive and good about your life.
Please.
(LOL) |
Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 2095
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 10:14 pm: |
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"CHris, take a deep breath, relax your facial muscles, put away your floppy discs,......"
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 9250
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 10:56 am: |
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Chris,
There already appear to be very effective Nazi programming being conducted. It’s manifesting in there being 50% rates of unemployment for Black men in of our nation’s largest cities. They’re manifesting in 50% high school drop out rate in Chicago. And fewer than 5% of those who get a high school diploma graduate college.
And we know forks who can’t read, don’t have diplomas can’t get jobs, who then do assorted other things that get them deeper into trouble (e.g., crime, unneeded pregnancies/children, spread STD’s, etc.).
So I imagine Dr. Josef Mengele would be goosestep with glee.
Apparently the single-sex public schooling is catching on. I’ve read where 262 public schools are single-sex. And another 200 coed schools have single-sex classes.
Here’s a link to research comparing single-sex and coed sex schooling:
http://www.singlesexschools.org/research-singlesexvscoed.htm
Research on the subject assert that not only do children – boys AND girls – do better in single-sex schools, the kids are more likely to develop interests in disciplines they might be less likely to pursue in coed schools (girls more likely to pursue math/science, boys more likely to pursue arts) and the schools tend to be fewer discipline issues.
And I’d much rather send some poor, neglected, fatherless Black boy to some formed of disciplined single-sex schooling than I would send him to prison, which is, of course, what we ARE doing right now. |
Ntfs_encryption
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Post Number: 2102
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 11:31 am: |
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"There already appear to be very effective Nazi programming being conducted. It’s manifesting in there being 50% rates of unemployment for Black men in of our nation’s largest cities. They’re manifesting in 50% high school drop out rate in Chicago. And fewer than 5% of those who get a high school diploma graduate college."
Bro ABM, unfortunately, those depressing stats are not going to change anytime soon. When I went back to Ohio, I saw everything you just commented about. It was sad. I saw the worst of it. As tragic and disturbing as it is, the HBO series "The Wire" is an ongoing real docudrama about life in the black underclass across America.
"And I’d much rather send some poor, neglected, fatherless Black boy to some formed of disciplined single-sex schooling than I would send him to prison, which is, of course, what we ARE doing right now."
Point well taken. Makes perfect sense to me. But according to Chris, your concerns and suggestion,"....is the stupidest idea you have ever had". Besides, "what the hell would that do about educating them?" And better yet, "Why don't you put your daughters in one?" E'nuff said.....
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Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 9252
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 11:57 am: |
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Ntfs,
I think the link I posted references to what appears to be an strong argument for why single-sex schooling can provide a better environment for "educating them".
My daughters are doing splendidly in school. But if they were not doing as well, I'd seriously consider putting them in some form of single-sex school.
Now. If the issue is that I don't have a right to tell someone else what they should do with their children, I'm going to ask them WTF do they think is ALREADY happening when close to a fourth of our young men end up ensnared in the criminal justice system? There are OTHER foks out there who feel they have EVERY right to make Black males do what they want them to do.
And they're a dayamsight less KIND about such than what I propose here. |
Misty
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 07:42 pm: |
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i think an all boys school with all male teachers WOULD be a good idea. |
Renata
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Post Number: 2044
Registered: 08-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 08:02 pm: |
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Three words: Clara Muhammad Schools. |
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