The One Best System- A History of American Urban Education by David B. Tyack

Blacks have always struggle to gain access to free education in the US.  David B. Tyack gave a thorough explanation on the history of Black Urban Education in Public Schools where Negroes often seemed to be an act of charity when it comes to them getting the education that they needed to succeed.  Black children also became subjects of experiments in classification that had threats for the future.  Whites excluded black student by segregation and they also cheated Black pupils from attending Public Schools because they controlled the educational system. Negroes realized that the educational system that was to even out other Americans was not meant for them and quickly learned that they had to fight for their rights, the rights that were supposedly granted to them by the 14th and 15th amendment.

            Even though blacks fought for their education rights so long ago they still have to continue this fight since black children throughout the U.S.A. are performing at the bottom of the educational system in America.  Without a good education, many Black children are not prepared for the world and will end up on the streets in violence, drugs etc.  If black children are to compete with the best and brightest students they have to get a good education.  When you look at the schools that the whites’ children attend it is of no comparison for the black schools. Black schools have less funding, less school resources and bigger class sizes than the white schools. They also have teachers with fewer qualifications than the white schools. Yet blacks are often compared with whites. It is unfair to expect that blacks are going to out perform whites.