The Root: Marches Alone Cannot Fix Education

The education system, especially for black males, is failing students. Activists like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have called for a revival of the 1960s civil rights movement to fix the problem, but Lester K. Spence of The Root says these statements are self serving. Instead he calls for organization on a local level and for programs like universal preschool that will help that deal with educational inequalities.

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