Fligher Education

I stumbled across some notes I took while I was conducting research on black family structures. While these stats do not generalize to the entire population of African Americans, the numbers are still very alarming. What are YOU doing to change these stats? As Jay-Z said “men lie, women lie, numbers don’t”… 1. Missing Baby […]

W.E.B Dubois proclaimed, “The greatest problem of the 20th century is that of the color line”. I believe that the greatest problem of our century is the role of fathers in the African American community. During my internship year of my Masters program, I can count the number of fathers that attended Individualized Education Program […]

Invisible man got the whole world watching. . . . I’m getting big props from this thing called hip hop. (Track 2) —Mos Def (Smith, 2002a) Let me begin by proclaiming that I personally do not condone the use of the “N word” by anyone! No matter the debate on the word, how it is […]

Education Factors The National Fatherhood Initiative list several “father factors”, which are essentially effects that the absence of fathers have on society. These father factors have impacts on education, teen pregnancy, poverty, incarceration and delinquency. Father involvement in schools is associated with the higher likelihood of a student getting mostly A’s. This was true for […]

Ladies and gentleman, this is a very serious matter… Not to be fooled by Captain-Save-A Black Student, our nation has a serious epidemic on our hands! The epidemic I speak of is the overpopulation of black male students in special education. The overpopulation, over representation, over-justification (sigh) frankly, I’m “over” it. For those of you […]