Huge Education Gap

Black male children are seriously losing out on the education front. The education gap between young white males and young black males is greater than previously understood according to an NYT article.

NY Times: Proficiency of Black Students Is Found to Be Far Lower Than Expected

Only 12 percent of black fourth-grade boys are proficient in reading, compared with 38 percent of white boys, and only 12 percent of black eighth-grade boys are proficient in math, compared with 44 percent of white boys.


Poverty alone does not seem to explain the differences...

“They have to do with a lot of sociological and historical forces. In order to address those, we have to be able to have conversations that people are unwilling to have.”

Those include “conversations about early childhood parenting practices..."