AFRICAN AMERICAN STRUGGLES

African American Struggles

Abstract

In this paper we, try to focus on African American struggles with education in the United States. The paper will compare and contrast the views of Malcolm X Fredrick Douglass, Brent Staples, and Martin Luther King, which we discuss regarding African American struggles with education in the United States. The paper starts with education as a serious problem among African Americans. The paper also highlights and gives a historical account to exemplify how African American struggles with education in the United States have been a problem over the years. In the last paper conclude up with the overall discussion.

African American Struggles with Education in the United States

Outline

The paper consists of the following outline:

Introduction

Thesis Statement

Background

Discussion

Compare and Contrast

Conclusion

Introduction

In the No child left behind act, every child has to be measured up to the standard established. The reality of this mandate is that there are improvements in some schools and the majority of schools are still struggling to close the achievement gaps. Several schools provide additional instruction in the form of after-school programs that are consisted of more of the same instruction students has had during the day. In general, the majority of failures come from socio-economic disadvantaged students. Black students and Hispanic students are the most affected groups. What we know about under achievement of minority students is that most of the times parental involvement is rare, and schools have to multiply strategies to, effectively teach all students.

Thesis Statement

Education was a significant problem among African Americans.

Background

The genesis of struggle in the education movement can be epitomized in the writing of Spring (2004): “The struggle over cultural domination in the United States begin with the English invasion of North America in the sixteenth century and continues today in the debate over multiculturalism. One reason for the nineteenth-century ...