Appreciated Terry Stoops’s comment on Armstrong Williams’s column in Town Hall regarding black achievement levels. Earlier this year in Education Next, Professor Roland Fryer, wrote a piece on “Acting White.” Dr. Fryer discusses the social price paid by the best and brightest minority students. It is an interesting article and approaches the academic gap between ethnic groups differently than Williams. Dr. Fryer writes:
“My analysis confirms that acting white is a vexing reality within a subset of American schools. It does not allow me to say whose fault this is, the studious youngster or others in his peer group. But I do find that the way schools are structured affects the incidence of the acting-white phenomenon. The evidence indicates that the social disease, whatever its cause, is most prevalent in racially integrated public schools. It?s less of a problem in the private sector and in predominantly black public schools.”
