National Education Report

Pacific Educational Group:

Black (African American) and Brown (Latino) students continue to underperform on standardized testing and reporting nationally. A growing percentage are failing to graduate from high school and are thus underrepresented in institutions of higher learning.

Pacific Educational Group purports that this crisis can only be solved by courageously investigating the devastating impact of systemic racism and the cumulative effect of a century of racial injustices on our nation's Black and Brown children. So, when President Obama, in his February 24, 2009 address to the nation, stated that "...a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity --it is a prerequisite," we were emboldened in our commitment to help educators realize the full potential and right of each and every student to learn.

Educators must be given the tools that help them examine and address the role that race plays in the education of, or failure to educate and engage, Black and Brown students. That has been and continues to be PEG's focus: to provide the language, skills and support to keep racial equity at the forefront of our nation's educational reform.

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[Aeschylus]

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