African American Student Achievement

Over the years there has been a significant decrease in the percentage of African American male success in higher education. Not only does this effect society as a whole, but more importantly this effects the African- American community as well. The high percentage of uneducated African- American males will result in increased crime rate, shortened life span and overall hard life. However this epidemic can be stopped by looking at the contributing factors of why there is a decrease in African-American male success in higher education and how to change it. Throughout the paper I will be addressing the issues as to why there are not more black men in higher education, by looking at the contributing factors such as environmental

African Americans became inferior to the white race when they were labeled as unintelligent through IQ tests. Unfortunately, the IQ tests only measured what students were able to fill out on a piece of paper with a pencil. The tests failed to show what people could do in the real world. These tests were inaccurate because a vast majority of African Americans were not given the same educational opportunities as Anglos. Due to the testing “results”, many teachers failed to correctly teach their diverse students because they already had stereotypes that make them doubt the student before they could reach their potential. When African Americans were placed in Anglo classes they doubted themselves because they knew that society had no hope for them.

A documentary we watched in class revealed the truth about how African Americans are falling behind in school and being placed in lower level classes than whites. Some African Americans are reading at a first grade level and are being placed in remedial classes, compared to white students who are striving in AP classes (Renaud). Part of the reason they continue to be educationally unequal is that they many of them lack the motivation to show up at school. Luckily, there are a few African Americans being placed in AP classes that are predominantly white because they are trying to “not end up like their parents,” yet, they continue to segregate themselves socially by all bunching together on one side of the classroom (Renaud). As a nation, we have all this wasted potential since African Americans do not have access to a decent education where they could help our country progress with technology and

They will say African Americans do not value education and lack the academic achievement value that is needed to succeed and be successful in the workplace environment. They will say African Americans are discouraged by high school and higher education by there lack of knowledge of basic task to perform well unlike their white counterparts.

There are various opportunities and ideas, which could better the African-American race. Despite what many might think, schools are quite vital to African-American students for core reasons such as past suppressants that did not allow black children to go to school as acquired. It would be safe to assume that schools were safe for black students, but segregation was not lifted until 1954 where it was said to be unconstitutional. Attending a school that is predominantly a different race is already a challenge to face, aside finding the tools to exercise the education being given. Teachers have a large impact on students’ lives.

Before we can effectively address the under-representation of African American males in urban middle and high school classrooms; we must first situate the problem in the right global-political context; otherwise further attempts to solve it will continue to be misguided. And secondly, we must recognize the negative psychological impact it has on African American students’ ability to learn, as a compound problem, in which disproportionality is supported by this under-representation. From the beginning, the basic function of education for African descended people is to prepare them for servitude to Whites, and consequently, it is this European constant which survives in the United States (Wilson, 1993). Changes in the physical manifestations

There are not a lot of African Americans in high-achieving schools where there is a small amount of Black students. When they were a part of a high-achieving, mostly black school, they did not feel marked for success.

For generations African Americans have been disadvantaged in America and effects of these injustices have made a lasting impression. Education is one of the leading problems in the black community. Though there have many reforms in education over the years, racial injustices still exist because no attention in placed on how legislature affects people of color. I was raised in a middle-class family of educators. My entire life I’ve been told to “stay in school, get an education, and work hard so that you can beat the system.” Recognizing the structural forces in my life has helped me understand my place in society. Being able to “understand everyday life, not through personal circumstances but through the broader historical forces that

African Americans are in minority and are treated unequal from the whites. Institutional racism in education was a huge problem in the past and still is a problem now. African Americans struggled to learn how to read and write, while the whites could get a high-quality education with little to no struggle. African Americans couldn’t attend high quality colleges, because they were discriminated in public places. Institutional racism relates to the civil liberty; right to education. It is also relative to the essay “Learning to Read and Write” by Frederick Douglass. Discrimination in the United States is the reason African Americans couldn’t get a quality education.

As an African American student it often troubles me that many fellow African Americans still do not have adequate access to higher education whether the barrier pertains to first generation status, familial income, or lack of school support. For my research project I am seeking to answer the question, “What factors inhibit or promote post-secondary academic success amongst African American students?” I decided to ask this question in two parts because it would be fairly simple to just list and describe sanctions that inhibit post secondary success. However, I also want to explore factors that promote success and how success is measured.

Modern research identifies race as a cause for educational attainment disparities; despite this conclusion, researchers have not yet ascertained a definitive reason why students of minority races have lesser academic achievement when provided the same economic opportunities and environment in which to learn as white students.  Several hypotheses assert that the inequalities must be due to racialized peer pressure and unjust teacher interactions or different racial expectations to which minority students and white students hold themselves.  In her article “Studying While Black: Trust, Opportunity, and Disrespect,” Sally Haslanger asserts that blacks are denied access to equal opportunity for knowledge based on racial discrimination and the resulting ego depletion of black students; she states that unjust epistemic exclusion is the cause for the education gap between blacks and whites.  In “It 's Not "A Black Thing": Understanding the Burden of Acting White and Other Dilemmas of High Achievement,” Tyson, Darity, and Castellino argue that black culture encourages black youths to uphold stereotypes and underperform in school so as not to be the target of racial bullying. If a black child were to achieve highly in school, they would be, in high school culture, “acting white,” which may cause peers to bully them.  Generally, this study says that cultural norms may influence race differences in education but does not hold

In education, white people have always been at an advantage compared to other races. African-American have had quite a setback in prior years. There was a time when African-American weren’t even allowed to learn how to write or read in our country just because of the color of their skin. There has been quite the improvement from those times in terms of African-Americans obtaining an education. According to Essentials of Sociology, only about 20 percent of African-Americans had a high school diploma in the year of 1960. The number has increased significantly to roughly 82 percent in 2013. That percentage represents a significant change that shows how our nation has progressed throughout the years. However, you are still at a set back if you aren’t white. “Black students were expelled at three times the rate of white students” (Hsieh, 2014).

Race and education are two things that seem to have a very great effect on each other. We live in the land of opportunity, and this land provides “The American Dream”. However, the American Dream must come with equal quality education for all people regardless of their race. Education is one of the major obstacles today that stands in the way of giving everyone the same opportunity that they deserve. Experts found out that students of color are given less opportunities to receive finical aid, scholarships, experienced teachers and good grades.

African Americans tend to have less resources and more economic hardships while in school. When going to school it helps when you have access to tutors and highly qualified teachers. In an article by Princeton university “Research indicates that children from low-SES households and communities develop academic skills more slowly compared to children from higher SES groups . Initial academic skills are correlated with the home environment, where low literacy environments and chronic stress negatively affect a child’s preacademic skills.” If a student does not get the necessary aid and support when going to school then they are probably going to drop out because at that point it becomes an actual struggle for them to go to school everyday. Likewise, according to the National Center for Education Statistics “African Americans are more likely to attend high-poverty schools than Asian Americans and Caucasians.”When students go to a school that is extremely destitute, they are more prone to be exposed to the harsh reality of low budget education. There is a higher chance that the technology is antediluvian and the materials being taught are not the most recent information that the state test on. Therefore African Americans in general are going to perform a lower level than other races and eventually bottom out because they don 't see the point in going to school anymore. In addition being poor plays a big role on whether you will graduate from

Most African American family don’t expose their children to thinking that the sky is the limit instead they will hear “both your parent did not go to college, so I would understand if you don’t, may it’s not for you” or “you got a D, at least you pass”. In those common scenario, parents are not pushing their children to excel. Since no one in your family went to college, that doesn’t excuse you. Reach for the stars, thrive to be the best. Be motivated because our ancestors weren’t as fortunate as we are now. However most African Americans in this generation feels as if they cannot thrive, being the best in their class is not an option “they just cannot”. I believe that if African American children was educated more on segregation issues and taught that we are equal no matter what the “white”