Parents of Black K-12 Kids- They're Waiting on You to Show Up!!

On the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress, only 18 percent of African-American fourth-graders were proficient in reading and only 19 percent scored as proficient in math, according to an analysis by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. The eighth-grade numbers were even worse, with only 16 percent of African-American students proficient in reading and 13 percent proficient in math.

By comparison, the report said, the national average for proficiency among all students in fourth-grade reading was 36 percent, while it was 40 percent in fourth-grade math, 34 percent in eighth-grade reading and 33 percent in eighth-grade math.

"It is easy to look at this report and despair," its authors wrote. "It puts front and center the fact that too many of our nation's young people are failing to achieve their potential, and that African-American students are disproportionately impacted by the shortcomings in our education system."

While there is a great deal of truth to this report, I believe the missing link is the fact that many of our African-American students at the K-12 level are entering school less prepared to learn and observed to be somewhat more behaviorally-challenged. Coupled with this are teachers' attitudes students with these limitations.

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