CNN Monika Plocienniczak published an article a few days ago. It reads, "A Pennsylvania high school says some students are separated by race, gender and language for a few minutes each day in an effort to boost academic scores, raising controversy over the historically contentious issue of segregation in schools.
The initiative is a pilot program intended to capitalize on "enriching students' experiences through mentoring" and is derived from school research "that shows grouping black students by gender with a strong role model can help boost their academic achievement and self esteem," according to a statement from McCaskey East High School in Lancaster."
However, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 which allowed state-sponsored segregation.
Should we be using this as an approach in the 21st century? Leave your comments! Let's start a dialog
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If this argument was completely true, then black students in predominately black schools would be excelling. Maybe the issue is not in the grouping of the students, but in the type of teachers teaching. I think the all black male school in Chicago with all black teachers says something to this theory. I contend it has more to do with the expectations of the teachers than it does with the grouping of the students.
Do you think that people learn better when they are around people they identify with? The author of this article also mentioned that mentoring was also taking place. I hear people say there are not enough role models for minority students... Do you think that this would address that issue?
@Sister Friend, you have a really good point. Moreover, majority schools (those that are predominately white) would also be excelling since this is true more often than not. Yet we lag behind in math and science uniformally across the states. Therefore, I can not see how the experiment would have any merit when we have decads of data that dispells the notion.
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