The latest snake-oil fix for minority education

[rangerrebew]

The latest snake-oil fix for minority education

By Naomi Schaefer Riley

March 27, 2017 | 9:18pm
 

The forced, unnecessary, ritual extraction of children’s teeth. That’s the process to which Christopher Emdin compared educating minority children in America today.

In front of a packed room at South by Southwest this month, Emdin, a professor at Columbia Teachers College, explains how the Dinka tribe in South Sudan once suffered an outbreak of tetanus, which created lockjaw in their population. The elders removed young people’s teeth in order to force them to eat.

http://nypost.com/2017/03/27/the-latest-snake-oil-fix-for-minority-education/

[Joe Wooten]

More of the same old crap. If it fails, dumb it down even further.

[Fishrrman]

From the article:
"Instead, he suggests that schools embrace black culture — he takes teachers to visit barber shops and black churches and to listen to rap music — in order to learn how to communicate with these children. He decries the young white people teaching urban youth as having a “savior mentality” reminiscent of “colonialism” and tells them, quoting A Tribe Called Quest, “We got it from here.”"

Yup. That's certainly going to work. Sure.

Let them use whatever "snake oil fixes" they wish insofar as "minority education" is concerned. The results probably will remain close to the norm.

Snake oil doesn't work that well against sumthin' called The Bell Curve.

[Joe Wooten]

From the article:
"Instead, he suggests that schools embrace black culture — he takes teachers to visit barber shops and black churches and to listen to rap music — in order to learn how to communicate with these children. He decries the young white people teaching urban youth as having a “savior mentality” reminiscent of “colonialism” and tells them, quoting A Tribe Called Quest, “We got it from here.”"

Yup. That's certainly going to work. Sure.

Let them use whatever "snake oil fixes" they wish insofar as "minority education" is concerned. The results probably will remain close to the norm.

Snake oil doesn't work that well against sumthin' called The Bell Curve.

Which is why Murray is so vilified by the prog education types. He shows them in hard undeniable facts why they are wrong.