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:Community Excel Education seeks a higher standard of teaching and student achievement on every level involved in the education of Black children and youth; and to develop a better system of general adult education in all Black communities. This Division includes:

A. Foundation for Directed Research, field studies and the training of scholars for neglected areas in various aspects of African life and history.

B. A General Publishing Board:

    1) Textbooks and other works related to progress Africans and People of African Descent.;

    2) Newspapers and magazines, a professional journal, community-action newsletters, etc.

C. Committee of Visitors. These should be in every community to:

     1) Become acquainted with teachers, students and the textbooks and other learning materials;

     2) To determine to what extent, if any, the anti-African or anti-black feeling on the part of many teachers of black youth may be a hidden obstacle to their progress in school work.

Every Committee of School Visitors is elected by the people of the community and reports directly to them. But “education” here means far more than “school” education. It means spreading light through a comprehensive program into the deprived areas of the community: New standards for better health; better homes and gardens; neighborhood improvement activities; and sponsoring neighborhood conferences on questions of mutual community and educational interest

D. Black Studies Programs

A Division of Education would justify its existence if it did nothing more than conduct studies as a basis for proposing certain guidelines for us in the United States. The general confusion and mess-up in the Black Studies Movement, for example, could have been avoided if the young people had somewhere to turn for help in determining procedures and priorities. What united guiding voice was there to advise them that all fields could not possibly or sensibly be started at once; that there were neither a fraction of the trained teacher’s required nor suitable books or other needed teaching and learning materials?

Only three or four courses could have been profitably started while research and training prepared the way for a real educational experience in others to be started later. Even then, common sense would have dictated that Black Studies can only be carried on in certain schools by certain teachers. To force them into white schools only because they are “integrating” and find it an expedient policy for the moment is one of those black illusions of achievement that still lead us astray. Equally ridiculous is the assumption that unwilling and uncommitted White and Black teachers are going to now deal fairly with the very aspects of civilization which they have systematically excluded from instruction all along. If this were not the case, of course, there would be no such phenomenon today as “Black Studies.

Education Empowerment Plan

1) Halt School Intergration

2) Control Public and Independent Schools

3) Cooperative and Group Learning vs. Individualism.

4) Retraining Education Teams

5) Compensatory Education and Alternative Schools

6) Using Technology

7) New Role for Black Colleges

8) Adopt-a-Black School