Negro Education: A Study of the Private and Higher Schools for Colored People in the United States (1916 report by the DOE)

[get these nets]

* Released in 1916, roughly 50 years after the end of the Civil War, Woodrow Wilson was the president, about 6 years after the Flexner Report and has similiar tone and slant. Dubois and Washington debates about education are echoed here. I just included one chapter of the two volume report, from the Bureau of Education..the precursor to the Dept. of Edu.

ABSTRACT
Negro Education: A Study of the Private and Higher Schools for Colored People in the United States, Bulletin, 1916, No. 39
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior
The effective education of the Negroes of the United States is essential to the welfare of the entire Nation, and especially of the Southern States. In view of this fact, the information contained in this bulletin has immediate and practical value of a very high degree. Noteworthy elements in the preparation of this report on Negro education are: (1) Collection of the facts through personal visitation to the institutions described; (2) Cooperation of public and private authorities; and (3) The constructive purpose involved in the study and in the presentation of the information. Every school reported upon was visited by one of more of the Bureau's agents, and the larger schools were studied by specialists in different types of education.

*just an excerpt chapter about Black colleges, cover page, 16 pages of text, and two pages of photos





*By coincidence, at the time of the report, U. S. military was in the beginning of a 19 year occupation of Haiti, and tried to revamp and mold the education system of Haiti, too.

 

[WIA20XX]

It's telling that folks were thinking about this issue 50 years out of slavery.

There is room for improvement, always...but it seems like a lot of us have gotten higher education.
If you went to a namebrand school or not, having a degree is really a leg up on people that don't have one. (Generally speaking, shout out to the trades)

Still, we've known for quite some time that a Black Person with a degree is less favorable than a white man with a criminal record.

Researchers Examine Effects of a Criminal Record on Prospects for Employment - CSG Justice Center

A team of researchers from Arizona State University recently conducted a three-year study on the impact of having a criminal record on employment-related outcomes, varying by race and gender.

csgjusticecenter.org

Great strides have been made by Black folks economically since desegregation. Roughly 1 in 3 was below the poverty line then, and now it's only 1 in 6. But, if parity to white people is a good measure*, we still haven't reached parity yet.

*Parity with white people is not a good measure, imo.

Can the current education system, better applied*, close the gap?

*As opposed to reimagined.

I'm not sure.
As compared to the majority*

• Harder to get a job
• Harder to get the pay
• More claims on the income
• etc

*The white American majority's economic place might be the wrong measure, as Millennial and Gen Z whites are in worse economic straits. Given that the Boomers benefitted from a time in Global economic history that will probably never be repeated. ...