Did anyone in there actually catch a single sentence that would improve schools for Black kids? "Teach harder teachers!" I'm pretty sure that was the deepest practical advice they gave in the entire 15 minutes, but someone school me if they said anything more insightful than that.
Some of the stuff they're saying is obvious but goddamn there's some ignorance in that video. They're cherry-picking a few random extremists here and there so they can dunk on low-hanging fruit and then jumping all the way to completely superficial and really fukking stupid prescriptions for education that will do nothing to help the problem.
Black students aren't failing because black schools aren't teaching mathematics or because black kids refuse to drill their time tables diligently enough. They're not failing because teachers aren't teaching to the test. They're not failing because they aren't being discipled strongly enough or they aren't being "taught harder". The shyt they imply is completely counterproductive and this has been shown over and over in the school environment in real life, but they're ignoring the actual research in favor of hot takes they pull off the top of their heads and then pretend it's science.
The # of serious people who say, "Black kids don't need to learn academics like White people do" is vanishingly few. The question is how you bridge the gap, and they're not saying anything at all that actually addresses that gap.
They're saying, "Look at China! Look at Pakistan!" First of all, are China and Pakistan really the models you want to look at? Is that the kind of education you want these kids to have? Why not look at the school systems that are actually producing the kind of students you want to produce and see what they're doing, rather than just naming shyt off the top of your head that you know nothing about.
These guys are hit and miss(mostly misses), but standardized testing is a layup.
It's blindingly obvious that you, just like McWhorter and Loury, don't know jack shyt about education.
It's an economist and a linguist talking about a field they know nothing about and then assuming they can override the experts in the actual field. You can tell right off the bat that they've never actually participated in a systematic analysis of different types of educational systems or actual experimental evaluation of the black-white learning gap because their prescriptions don't engage with the research at all.