Angela serves as Vice President of The Feulner Institute at The Heritage Foundation.
For African Americans, learning and knowledge has been—and continues to be—the drumline of survival and success.
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Key Takeaways
Charter schools have been tremendously successful in helping minority students get a quality education.
Self-destructive behaviors don’t seem to flourish in schools rooted in a vision of achieving excellence and writing a legacy of purpose.
Too often, students find themselves consigned to public schools, mired in a defeatist vision of low-expectations, victimhood and resignation.
For African Americans, learning and knowledge has been—and continues to be—the drumline of survival and success.