The Pursuit Of Quality Education By Activists & Journalists: Dogged Policy Wonks Who Show Incompetence At Execution

Is there a better analogy to show the large gap between the modern day "educational activism" on behalf the Black community and the results on the street than to document the fate of the "Bayard Ruskin Educational Complex" in New York City?   A facility that will be shut down next year and rechristened as some other, more effective entity?

While those who pursued a certain course of action, failed and realize that a change of course was needed should be criticized for their failure and conditionally praised for their willingness to see that CHANGE is necessary - there exists a recalcitrant faction that is embedded within the Black Community Racial Consciousness Nucleus that remains unrepentant as to the original damage that they have done to our cause.  They understand that there exists no entity within the Black community that will remove them from power with just cause that is so evident to those who care to see.

The Gap Between The Promises Sold To The Black Investor Versus The Deliveries As The Desired Outcomes Are Necessarily Delivered "Upon The Backs Of The Black Community "

What we have here, folks, is a divergence at the heart of the ideological debate that rages within the Black community.  The debate that one side is winning - while the Black community is losing.

The notion that the Black community must be the key agent for uplift of our own people - in competition with others who have competing interests- bring forth such tired platitudes such as:

• "Blaming the victim for his condition after suffering an attack"
• "Allowing the oppressor to enjoy his stolen goods while his victims continue in squalor"
• "The national shame that history's victims are made to suffer from BENIGN NEGLECT while the nation wonders how it can become globally competitive once again"

All of these commonly heard talking points look past one important fact - The Black rank & file - when given a free choice of there to invest its "Community Development Consciousness" resources allowed the "embedded confidence men" to greatly influence their investment decisions.  After which there was no independent voice that acted as "INVESTMENT ADVISERS", harshly scrutinizing the "Portfolio Statements" - for evidence of "return on investments".

The Root-Grio: Bill Pending In US House Is A Threat To Poor (Black) Students

With the ominous  label "No Child Left Behind" officially retired by the Obama Administration - the reauthorization of the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act" (The official name of the previous reauthorization that President Bush and Progressive-Lion Senator Ted Kennedy crafted ) having been retired - leave it up to our friends at The Root-Grio to feed a new series of threats to our conscious awareness that the Black community should be concerned about regarding Republican attempts to steal education away from Black people.

The primary reason why the Black community never gets around to holding accountable the people who have previously received the investments of our "equal Black ballots" and our "community development consciousness" is because - just as the "Vote Of No Confidence" is about to take place  - operatives such as "The Root-Grio" come along and work to redirect our attention span to the news "conservative assault" upon Black people.  With the Black rank & file assuming the "racially defensive position" - just as The Root-Grio knew we would take in advance - yet another group of scoundrels are allowed to hold onto their seats of power over Black community institutions despite their failings.

The Divergent Assessment Of The "Bayard Ruskin High School" In NYC Shows the need for standardized testing as a means of moving beyond subjectivity and popularity in one's appraisal.


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The Bayard Ruskin High School Complex - As Depicted By "Great Schools.org"

Despite the great promise at the school's founding - years later it registers of "2 out of 10" in the Great Schools.org evaluation scale.   (Therefore we must throw out the scale)

Standardized Testing Results

When Bayard Ruskin talked about "Integrated Schools" as the solution to Black education - he was clearly not talking about integration with Hispanic students because that did not do the trick. Why did he and others assume that by having Black kids to sit next to White kids - the Black kids received some magical uplift in their academic standing?

Despite the fact that the NYC school system spends more per student than the state average the force that I call "Establishment Authority Repudiation" allows the activists to reject the notion that they have sufficient school funding in which THEY should expect better results from the institutions that they so strongly influence.  Instead they place themselves into a seat by which they will continue to demand more money before they will allow themselves to be satisfied that sufficient amounts of money are in hand that they should now be questioning other attributes of the education distribution system.

The wildly divergent assessments of the school justify the need for standardized measures as a means of making a more transparent appraisal

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Despite the fact that time and measurements have proven Bayard Ruskin's claims to be false - there exists a large troop of progressive educational activists that will do all that is in their power to keep the Black community focused on the accouterments that are not core to the struggle for Black academic excellence.