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Melissa Harris-Perry: ‘You’re Not Getting a Full Education’ in a Single-Race Classroom
Mediaite ^ | May 16, 2014 | Noah Rothman

Posted on 05/16/2014 5:20:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry joined her fellow MSNBC host Joy Reid on Friday to talk about the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s historic decision in Brown v. The Board of Education and modern racial dynamics in education. Harris-Perry, an educator herself, said that the metrics used to assess the quality of an education need to include diversity as well as factors like test scores and college attendance.

Harris-Perry and Reid wrestled with the history of segregation in education and eventually moved on to discuss the rise of charter schooling which both noted are now attracting minority students as well as white students. Reid noted that this phenomenon leaves public schools with fewer students who may not be of the highest academic caliber.

“You and I are both parents,” Harris-Perry conceded. “So, we know that when are you making a choice for your individual child, you can have political commitments and theological commitments, but your primary commitment as a parent is to make sure that the best educational opportunities are open for that kid.”

“That said,” she continued, “I think we do need to start thinking of an integrated classroom as a quality classroom.”

“Part of what happens is we use these measurements for the quality of the classroom and the quality of the school that don’t account in any way for racial diversity, right?” the MSNBC host added. “It’s only test scores or number of kids who go to college, which are meaningful, but I think the other piece of it is to say you are not getting a full education, you are not being indicated as a human being or as an American citizen if you are learning in a single-race classroom.”

Watch the clip below, via MSNBC:

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: diversity; education
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In the game of life there is no affirmative action. Stupid people will fail and sometimes worse. Get smart and life becomes easier, maybe even survivable.


41 posted on 05/16/2014 7:15:11 PM PDT by Texicanus (Texas, it's a whole 'nother country.)
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To: Viennacon

Re: “You may dismiss this as more insane rantings from the queen of tampon earrings.. but it is actually another glimpse into the true liberal agenda. .................... “

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Yes, when old tampon-ears speaks, you just KNOW I’m gonna sit up and pay attention........... /sarcasm!!!!!!!


42 posted on 05/16/2014 7:22:16 PM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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To: defconw

So she is going to put her little darling (you know there is only one) in an inner city school?”

Sure, the same day as BO enrolls his kids in public schools in DC.


43 posted on 05/16/2014 7:37:08 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hmmm!

So Howard University will be closing?/s

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44 posted on 05/16/2014 7:39:16 PM PDT by Mears
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To: MNnice

in many urban areas now whites are a minority.


45 posted on 05/16/2014 7:41:24 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Tatum believes that it’s a natural process for black youth to self-segregate:
“I think the answer has to do with the child’s transition into adolescence. Adolescents are searching for identity; they’re asking questions like: Who am I in the world?... Who am I ethnically? Who am I racially? and What meaning does this have for how people view me and interact with me?...And as that young person is trying to make sense of his experience, in all likelihood he is going to seek out and try to connect with other people who are having similar experiences.
“As a result, even the young person who has grown up in a multiracial community and had a racially mixed group of friends tends to start to pull away from his non-black friends, his white friends in particular.”

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/dec97/vol55/num04/Why-Are-All-the-Black-Kids-Sitting-Together%C2%A2-A-Conversation-with-Beverly-Daniel-Tatum.aspx

The study, conducted by University of Michigan sociology researchers Siwei Cheng and Yu Xie, suggests that the more options students have in choosing friends, the more likely they are to settle into close friendships with those who have similar racial backgrounds.

http://www.medicaldaily.com/interracial-friendships-less-likely-self-segregation-more-common-larger-schools-245037

“Segregation is by far the most serious in the central cities of the largest metropolitan areas,” the report says, “but it is also severe in central cities of all sizes and suburbs of the largest metro areas, which are now half nonwhite.”

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/05/15/Report-West-Virginia-has-least-segregated-schools-in-the-US-New-York-has-most/3101400188780/#ixzz31vwsHOB8

Princeton sociologist Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford found those with the most diverse friendship groups in college were white students. They also found that the poor, rural or working class conservative white student was the most underserved and least represented group in college. The discrimination against white students is discussed here:

http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2010/07/how_diversity_punishes_asians.html


46 posted on 05/16/2014 7:59:47 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: DennisR
What does “2+2=4” or “light travels at 186,000 miles per second in a vacuum” have to do with race?

'Nuffin.

Its da word problems:

Willie gets $200 for stealing a BMW, $50 for a Chevy and $100 for a 4x4. If he has stolen 2 BMW’s and 3 4x4’s how many Chevy’s will he have to steal to make $800?

47 posted on 05/16/2014 8:19:52 PM PDT by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Duh... mebbe dat’s why I’se such a illiterate.


48 posted on 05/16/2014 8:26:06 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Can this thinking be extended to such things as (a) the feminist movement, (b) the Congressional Black Caucus, (c) the Al Sharpton circus and dance band, etc.?


49 posted on 05/16/2014 8:39:02 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: Jack Hammer
thank you... that is pure, unadulterated, bullsh!t
50 posted on 05/16/2014 8:39:05 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
It's takes stupid for others to know they're smart. Do they really need to learn that in college?
Plenty of prime examples in every workplace. Start with the Obama WH.
51 posted on 05/16/2014 8:42:02 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: Dick Bachert

“It’s a well settled axiom of government school education that a black kid is incapable of learning unless sitting next to a white kid.”

Well worthy of a repeat.


52 posted on 05/16/2014 8:49:32 PM PDT by Finalmente
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“indicated”?? This woman is just another jive talking pseudo intellectual.


53 posted on 05/16/2014 8:59:13 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
‘You’re Not Getting a Full Education’ in a Single-Race Classroom...well, yes - in education we need diversity to make sure kids are exposed to the fullest variety of life experiences - but to defend traditional marriage as the foundation for raising kids with both a mother and father to introduce them to the sexuality of both genders - well, that's intolerant and hateful - strange.....
54 posted on 05/16/2014 9:24:46 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I heard some facist on some news report basically saying we needed to “create more diverse communities” to “solve” the problem of schools with a majority one race be it black, white or hispanic.

I’m sure she wanted to add “by force” but since I know liberalize I knew it was implied.


55 posted on 05/16/2014 9:30:08 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Conservatives are all that's left to defend the Constitution. Dems hate it, and Repubs don't care.)
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To: Dick Bachert

You forgot how to make a shiv in shop class.


56 posted on 05/16/2014 11:01:20 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You are not getting a “full education” in any public school classroom!


57 posted on 05/17/2014 8:46:30 AM PDT by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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To: lightman

“4x4” = 16, right? /s


58 posted on 05/17/2014 9:52:00 AM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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