Why Are Black Students Lagging?

A book to be released next year argues that minority communities themselves contribute to student failure. Immediately when I read this I get suspicious, like when I read the blurbs announcing "The Bell Curve." Could it possibly be that hundreds of years of segregation take hundreds of years to undo? And the longer institutions and government officials drag their heels in resisting the changes necessary to undo that damage, the longer it will be before real change will be apparent at all levels of US society? -Steve
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Who Ya Gonna Trust?

The Chicago Teachers' Center spends a lot of time building trust in the partners with whom it works. One of the strategies used are Teams Courses that build teamwork and group trust. This has been a methodology used and perfected by our Experiential & Adventure Learning and Play for Peace initiatives.

A major global public opinion survey, however, suggests that trust in many key institutions has fallen to critical proportions. The survey of 36,000 people conducted by Gallup International and Environics International reveals a dramatic lack of trust in democratic institutions and global and large national companies; and trust is even low when it comes to non-governmental organizations (NGOs), trade unions and media organizations around the world. Could there be a larger role for the work that CTC does? [PR Watch's Spin of the Day]
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