The State of Black Education: The Politics of Educating African American Students at Colleges and Universities

Authors

  • Earnest N. Bracey, Ph.D.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18533/journal.v3i2.283

Abstract

            In terms of higher education for African American students, the “school-to-prison pipeline” or Prison Industrial Complex must be totally dismantled in order to focus entirely on academic performance at colleges and universities and HBCUs. Additionally, mentors should be identified to tutor and guide and help black youngsters overcome their fear of learning and going to school, so that our whole society can benefit and improve academically. Finally, in this respect, we-the-people can move our nation forward by graduating people of color at higher institutions of learning, while providing them with a more productive life, and social advancement.

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Published

2014-03-04

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Vol. 3 No. 2 (2014): February

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