The State of Black Education in Nashville
Season 2 Episode 1 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Addressing the state of the Black education experience in Nashville, Tennessee.
Join NPT producer Jerome Moore has he examines the state of Black education in Nashville with Metro Nashville Public Schools board Member Christiane Buggs and Ashford Hughes Sr., executive officer for diversity, equity and inclusion at Metro Nashville Public Schools.
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The State of Black Education in Nashville
Season 2 Episode 1 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Join NPT producer Jerome Moore has he examines the state of Black education in Nashville with Metro Nashville Public Schools board Member Christiane Buggs and Ashford Hughes Sr., executive officer for diversity, equity and inclusion at Metro Nashville Public Schools.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- What would you describe the current state of Black students in our educational system right now, in public education here in Nashville?
I'll start with you, Christiane.
- Sure, so I'll go from a data standpoint, we are lifting as we climb.
All students are doing better slowly but surely, which means that all Black students are doing at least better.
What we don't talk about in the community enough is that children actually come to school behind and our most, under-resourced, most disenfranchised community.
I love to throw out this statistic, 65% of Black, brown, differently abled and low SES students come into kindergarten and first grade a full grade level behind.
So when we talk about the state of public education, we have to talk about the state of the community because schools are only where community issues bubble up.
It's not that we work in a silo, but you have to make sure the children are fed, that they feel confident, that they are loved on, that their families feel supported and so I would say that we have to have the nuanced conversation when we talk about Black education because, again, we don't operate in a silo.
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A Slice of the Community is a local public television program presented by WNPT