... formal education that the aspirations, history, expectations, values, and culture of American society is reflected. Many African Americans find incompatibility between their formal and informal educations. Since the majority of formal American education does not reinforce African American principles of family and community. African American children find themselves having to live and function through biculturalism. The purpose of ... classrooms. African American students were introduced to new standards, which are still in effect today, by teachers who did not care either way whether the...

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... having a gun on school property. However, since it's origin, the policies have expanded to include infractions that pose no actual threat to any person, including the individual that broke the rule. Zero tolerance has even gone so far as to define, "[...] aspirin, Alka-Seltzer, and Certs as 'drugs' and paper clips, nail files, and scissors as 'weapons'," which puts an incredible ... only way they can feel and share it (Ayers and Dohrn 1). In 1998, over three-million students were suspended from school in the U.S. alone. Thousands more were expelled. The vast majority of these punishment...

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... and 0% of its students scoring "advanced" in mathematics. This relationship is similar across reading and science tests, and in schools across the nation. While there are exceptions, a general rule can be made that the lower the average income of a school, the lower the test scores will be. This reality proves that our "relative value" is lower than ... upper-class whites. Current trends show that there is less "white flight" to the suburbs each year from major cities, and that many suburbs themselves are becoming increasingly majority-minority (Ryan 282). Local, state, and federal gove...

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