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Sunday at the Movies (US Round-Up)
Here’s a short clip featuring our old friend Bob Bowdon, who gives a quick overview of educational action in the US and then highlights two important stories. The first concerns a Seattle study which found that African-born black students were doing significantly better than American-born black students, suggesting that the roots of the black/white achievement gap are cultural, not racial. The second concerns an attack on charter schools in New York, which was jointly launched by one of the teachers’ unions and the NAACP. This would seen somewhat incongruous on the face of it, since the NAACP is supposed to be working for the benefit of black Americans - yet the charter schools in question were serving (and serving well) mostly disadvantaged black kids. It then was learned that the NAACP was on the payroll of the teachers’ union, suggesting that the NAACP cares more about money than it does about the welfare of the black students in the charter schools. YouTube link. H/T A/S