Nigeria: How to Help Disadvantaged Students Succeed Academically - African-American School Superintendent

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Pascal Mubenga, Ph.D., a teacher and Transformational Education leader, was recently appointed Superintendent of Durham Public School District, North Carolina in the United States. In this role, he leads 53 schools ranging from kindergarten to high school with a population of thirty-thousand students, three thousand teachers, and thousands of administrative employees. The Durham School District has a budget of over $400 million and three quarters of its students are minorities, meaning they are Hispanic or Latino , African-American, Asian-American and Native American. The rest are white.

In the United States, the education of minority students is contentious and problematic. There are different kinds of minorities, those whose ancestors were enslaved and colonised like African-Americans, Latinos and Native Americans, and those who migrate willingly such as Asian-Americans, Middle-Easterners, African immigrants, and White immigrants. African-Americans are not immigrants.

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