Posted: November 25th, 2015

Tyack explains that Philip Boyer and his colleagues were concerned with the "Negro Problem", but their response was not to try to use the school to expose and correct the racism of American Society but rather to "adjust" the black child to the white middle class norms educators accepted unquestioningly. What evidence do we have in today's urban schools, overall, that this approach or thinking has changed? And if so, is it enough?

Tyack explains that Philip Boyer and his colleagues were concerned with the “Negro Problem“, but their response was not to try to use the school to expose and correct the racism of American Society but rather to “adjust” the black child to the white middle class norms educators accepted unquestioningly. What evidence do we have in today’s urban schools, overall, that this approach or thinking has changed? And if so, is it enough?