I don't think there's a school on earth (except maybe full-time residential boarding schools or quasi-boot camps) that can make up for dysfunctional and unengaged home lives. This is true for broken-down communities of any color; it just hurts a higher-proportion of dark-skinned people than pale-skinned.
Most of the top-performing US ethnic groups are not white. Indians, Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Nigerian, etc.
Of course excellent schools can do a lot. This has been proven repeatedly. Compare Baltimore Public to Success Academy. Almost no one in Baltimore Public is doing well. Lots of Success Academy kids are doing very well, Freddie de Boer's witless critique notwithstanding.
I don't think there's a school on earth (except maybe full-time residential boarding schools or quasi-boot camps) that can make up for dysfunctional and unengaged home lives. This is true for broken-down communities of any color; it just hurts a higher-proportion of dark-skinned people than pale-skinned.
Most of the top-performing US ethnic groups are not white. Indians, Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Nigerian, etc.
Of course excellent schools can do a lot. This has been proven repeatedly. Compare Baltimore Public to Success Academy. Almost no one in Baltimore Public is doing well. Lots of Success Academy kids are doing very well, Freddie de Boer's witless critique notwithstanding.