Roland Fryer has been working on a program that pays children for academic success for a while now, and its been rolled out in Chicago, New York City, and Washington D.C. even though research argues that it does little to nothing to reduce the achievement gap. For all of the talk about black public intellectuals such as Cornel West, I don’t think there is a single black public intellectual who has had more of an effect on public policy. When Fryer jokes that economy studies and rationalizes behavior in this and all known universes he lays out the central premise of neoliberal governmentality.
Roland Fryer on the Colbert Report
by admin | Dec 16, 2008 | Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Education, Neoliberalism, Public Policy, Racial Politics, Urban Politics | 3 comments
I saw him on a PBS special months ago taking about the program & It sounds like a great idea for some situations. The families that were highlighted in the piece that I saw seemed more than pleased with the progress that their children were making.
I do not think this type of plan is an over all cure but it be part of some type of solution to underserved children.
Tafari
[quote]For all of the talk about black public intellectuals such as Cornel West, I don’t think there is a single black public intellectual who has had more of an effect on public policy.[/quote]
Too bad it's for the bad. Fryer's approach instrumentalizes education and creates a culture of philistines. Instead of having the hard conversation about what we should teach and why, we will pay them off. Fryer should be ashamed of himself. I guess his lot thinks urban blacks will have arrived when we have black Bernie Madoffs. (I guess we already have one, I forgot about Stan O'Neil.)
Roland Fryer on the Colbert Report http://t.co/D7QMJul7