Why Blacks are Excluded from New York City Gifted and Talented (specialized) High Schools
What is it about?
The disparity in New York City schools for gifted and talented students is long standing and disturbing, suggesting Black students are intellectually inferior. The severity of the problem is seen where even in Brooklyn, the "Black capital of the world," of the 5000+ students in Brooklyn Technical gifted and talented high school, only 550 are Blacks. Its worse in the top elite school, where of the 3000 students, only 30 are Black.
Why is it important?
The composition of NYC gifted and talented schools has had negative implications on Black children and their parents, and causes some to advance long debunked eugenic theory as the cause for the disparity. As Blacks challenged and defeated the long held beliefs that NYC Fire Department was 97% Whites because of Blacks' lack of qualifications, so too they must defeat the scourge of racism inherent the present composition of those schools.
Perspectives
http://dx.doi.org/10.7709/jnegroeducation.84.2.0107
The following have contributed to this page: Dr Rupert Green
