Posted on 10/07/2022 3:38:44 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Two D.C. high schools will remodel their curriculum with the intention to better prepare students for college and careers.
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School and the Francis L. Cardozo Education Campus will be the first cohort of the DC+XQ, a partnership between D.C. Public Schools and the XQ Institute to “rethink and redesign all DCPS high schools,” a schools and XQ Institute news release said.
The XQ Institute is an organization that develops programs aimed at improving high school education in the U.S.
Dunbar and Cardozo will spend the current school year “prototyping and piloting elements of their school models, testing ideas, and gathering input from their communities.”
For Dunbar, this means students will have a school year through the lens of Afrofuturism, a cultural and intellectual movement that “leverages knowledge of the past to create possibilities for the future.”
Cardozo students will focus on the goal of financial independence, including building an interdisciplinary approach that will fuse academics and business and financial skills.
“Keeping up with a changing world means having the flexibility, vision and willingness to re-imagine how we prepare young people to succeed in school and after graduation,” D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said in a statement.
D.C. Schools Chancellor Lewis Ferebee said the initiative is a “step forward” in making sure students are prepared for college and their careers.
The DC+XQ initiative launched in February, and in the last seven months six D.C. high schools participated in XQ’s research design, which included an equity audit of their schools. Community members were also invited to share their input.
Each school came up with its own design concept that identified the greatest areas of need for their students, and the assets and opportunities available.
https://xqsuperschool.org/rethinktogether/dcxq-announces-first-cohort-of-high-schools-to-be-reimagined-and-redesigned/
So, We wuz Kangz and Wakanda?...
Destroying blacks by playing on their egos.
“Our vision of a school learning community focused on Afrofuturism”
um... yeah.. that will be a failure 100% for sure.
If only.
When you see a buzzword ridden mess such as that, success is doubtful.
If they REALLY want to "leverage knowledge from the past", they need to start in the 1st through 5th grade levels.
For math and reading use only books from 1830 to 1860 that have ALL of the phonics rules, including silent and substitute letter rules.
The math is taught in a far easier to understand way than today, making it far more efficient.
By 5th grade in that era, students knew all of the business math they would need.
“prototyping and piloting elements of their school models, testing ideas, and gathering input from their communities.”
Gangsta schools
Great...may as well remove what’s left of education from school altogether.
Black kids...at least black boys...all think they’ll make millions in the NBA or as a rap star. Why can’t it be made clear to them by white “progressives” and black “community leaders” that as great as that sounds it’s much more realistic for them to dream of being a $70,000/yr accountant or a $100,000/yr plumber or electrician?
Deck chairs . . . .
Reading, writing, arithmetic, and rote memory....
The invoice for my consulting service is in the mail.
“For Dunbar, this means students will have a school year through the lens of Afrofuturism”
If my old memory is correct, 60 years ago Paul Laurence Dunbar High School was a very high performing school. Unlike the Dunbar High School in Dunbar’s home town of Dayton, Ohio. Now both have been “fixed”.
Yassa, Afrofuturism is sho gwin fix ever thang rong wit Dunbar.
Washington DC, our future Zimbabwe.
But wait, I think it is there already.
“students will have a school year through the lens of Afrofuturism”. Huh?
The dumbing down will increase.
Two D.C. high schools will remodel their curriculum with the intention to better prepare students for college and careers.
These two things are not congruent.
Stopped reading after “Afrofuturism”.
Somehow, my gut says this really won’t help the kids learn better at all.
For that matter, what do the experts think this new program will do to the graduation rate in DC?
Carpentry, welding, electrical, and plumbing is a much better idea, truck driving would work too.
From the DC area, the vast majority of enrolled students never graduate (male and female). If you did test 18-year olds, I suspect that 75-percent of the local population would be graded at the 6th grade level.
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