Hugh Price, president of the National Urban League, has been following public education for a long time. He's now written a book on what he thinks it will take to fix America's schools.
Perhaps the most important thing black America can do, Price believes, is to reawaken the earnest desire for learning. Too many adults - and he cites examples - make negative assumptions regarding the academic potential of black children. Too many black youngsters assume that academic excellence isn't a black thing. And too many black parents sit helplessly by as their children succumb to negative peer pressure.
The counter, he says, is an "achievement culture..."
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