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A new report has found that black boys lag behind their white counterparts in reading and math to an even greater extent than previously thought. The sponsor of the report -- the Council of the Great City Schools, an advocacy group for urban public schools -- calls the findings as "jaw-dropping."

The study concluded that the school performance gap between black boys and white boys couldn't be chalked up to poverty alone. That could provide ammunition to those who argue that cultural factors, as opposed to economic forces, explain low educational performance among African-Americans.

The study found that just 12 percent of black fourth-grade boys are proficient in reading, compared with 38 percent of white boys, the New York Times reports. Only 12 percent of black eighth-grade boys are proficient in math, compared with 44 percent of white boys.

The report also says that black boys drop out of high school at nearly twice the rate of white boys, and have SAT scores that are 104 points lower, on average.


Poverty isn't the sole explanation for the differences. The report found that poor white boys do as well at reading and math as non-poor black boys. That will give a boost to those who argue for the need to look at differences in culture and child-rearing techniques. That "culture of poverty" approach, championed by the late New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, has long been treated gingerly, out of concern that emphasizing cultural differences could be perceived as a form of racism. But it has been making a comeback of late.

"There's accumulating evidence that there are racial differences in what kids experience before the first day of kindergarten," Ronald Ferguson, a Harvard University scholar who focuses on the racial achievement gap, told the Times. "They have to do with a lot of sociological and historical forces. In order to address those, we have to be able to have conversations that people are unwilling to have."

Ferguson added that those conversations should include "the activities that parents conduct with their 2-, 3- and 4-year-olds. How much we talk to them, the ways we talk to them, the ways we enforce discipline, the ways we encourage them to think and develop a sense of autonomy."

(Photo: AP/Alex Brandon)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/report-black-boys-lagging-badly-in-school#mwpphu-container

Ndipe's comment: What's to be blamed, rap music?

Hebrews 1:1-5 (English Standard Version)

Hebrews 1
The Supremacy of God’s Son
1Long ago, at many times and(A) in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2but(B) in these last days(C) he has spoken to us by(D) his Son, whom he appointed(E) the heir of all things,(F) through whom also he created(G) the world. 3He is the radiance of the glory of God and(H) the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power.(I) After making purification for sins,(J) he sat down(K) at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 4having become as much superior to angels as the name(L) he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.
5 For to which of the angels did God ever say,
   (M) "You are my Son,
today I have begotten you"?   

None: He did not say that to Michael or the rest of the Angels. So, Jesus Christ is distinct from Michael. He, Jesus Christ, created Michael and the rest of the Angels.

My classmate got another female classmate pregnant in school. This was a major scandal.

Very funny, I still get a crack at this post of multiple Ids.

Jesus Christ is not Michael the Archangel.

Jude 1:9: Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, "The Lord rebuke you!''


When Jesus Christ was tempted by the devil, here is what He said.

Matthew 4:7: Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

Environer:
So did the govts of Mungo park's and Christopher Columbus' countries investigate them?

I dont know about the govt of Mungo Park or Christopher Columbus, but his 'discovery' of America is very much celebrated till today in America. Are you suggesting that we do the same to Emegwali?

iaabc:
So Mrs Siena's mum slaps you (God forbid)!, you're telling me you will slap her back. What will that make you? And how iwll Mrs Siena feel about that?

Question was totally unneccessary and crass.

cecegorz:
Mungo Park came to Eastern Nigeria where people have been living along the banks of a river for generations unknown, promptly called the river 'Niger' and the white men claimed he discovered the river     

Philip Emeagwali went to the US where people had been working on the models for the internet, cobbled up a couple of the computer machines for his project work and the white man again called him a father of the internet.     

Let the investigation begin sha, we dey.

My broda, that's what I posted earlier


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This is a right step. Goodness, we were deluded into believing that he was the father of the internet. If this is not done, then our children will be imparted with wrongful information that this man founded the internet. This lies would compete alongside that of Mungo Park 'discovering' River Niger or Christopher Columbus 'discovering' America.

Yeah, I have heard of the Nsibidi script common among the Ekpe society.

Sagamite:
I would rather be damned if I do.

Most women are irrational in relationships.

Even more than these most will be [more] irrational in divorces, which itself are mostly messy due to anger/revenge or misinformation to one party that their contribution is worth more than it actually is.

So the odds are quite bad.

Better safe than sorry! Especially if you are the one with the highest probability of facing the risk.

As well as men. If you notice in Nigeria and other parts of Africa, when a couple divorce, usually, the woman leaves singlehandedly, irrespective of her contributions to the household. Look at the house in the first place, no matter if the woman was a 'co-builder' of the family dwelling place, the house is still regarded as the man's domain. So, dont ascribe irrationality to most women.

@Uchetobi, you are quite correct on that.

Read this link:

http://odili.net/news/source/2010/nov/8/613.html

How Good Samaritan died mediating between man and wife
Written by Olalekan Olabulo
Monday, November 8, 2010


The virtues of peacemaking is extolled by all. But, sometimes, peacemakers get caught in the crossfire, leaving them with an ugly experience to tell. In this report by Olalekan Olabulo, one peacemaker was not that fortunate.He got caught in the web of a fight between a man and his wife which left him stone dead.

It was supposed to be a mediation between a man and his wife, who had woken up their co-tenants with their usual feud. It, however, turned out to be a journey of no return for a Good Samaritan, whose death has become a source of concern to residents of Egan , a suburb in Alimosho Local Government area of Lagos State . . .

koruji:
So what if you were deceived into believing he was a father of the internet. Now you know better, move on - if he seeks your favor ever don't grant it because he "lied".

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore insinuated that he was instrumental to the internet. Of course, he was ridiculed for it - but that was not a crime by any measure. He went on to be awarded a Nobel Prize.

Did it cost you a kobo or something? Worry more about the frauds allocating huge sums to themselves and calling themselves your leaders - they are the ones who will really stop your kids from seeing the 4 walls of a classroom. All the resources end up in their belly.

People are shipping deadly arms through your territory, and Nigeria is quiet over it, but the information minister is ready to bust a blood vessel over Emeagwali?

Well, take off his image from the Nigerian stamps if its proven that he lied, instead of according him a hero of Nigeria. Dont defend him, it's stories like this that also gives us a bad name abroad. The man has lied, despite being exposed as a fraud.

This is a right step. Goodness, we were deluded into believing that he was the father of the internet. If this is not done, then our children will be imparted with wrongful information that this man founded the internet. This lies would compete alongside that of Mungo Park 'discovering' River Niger or Christopher Columbus 'discovering' America.

[quote author=bk.babe97y link=topic=13568.msg7098810#msg7098810 date=1289174214]Sounds like this one crazy Nigerian gal that tried to pull the same stunt on me. Very violent thing. Cus she came to the U.S with the belief that women got rights over here; she was always trying to exercise those rights by beefing with anyone (her family/friends/anybody) then calling the police. I found it weird that she always asked questions about how to get someone or the other arrested. To think this gal had only been in the States for about 6-8 months at the time!!!![/quote]That's her goal? Having someone arrested? Hmmm, tell her that what goes around comes around.

It's called "Alienation of affection" and in America, the aggrieved wife can sue the husband's mistress in court for stealing her husband. Yeah, I know of at least a case where the wife won substantial damages from the mistress.

Ime Umanah? Na wao for that guy, that's the same person who fought tooth and nail against Idongesit Nkanga and lost. He hasnt learnt a lesson, thought he would have laid low and campaigned for his tribesman. Wetin that man want sef?

Siena:

Radiant, of course! If my MIL slapped me, I'd make sure my retaliatory slap would knock her across the room. I'm not into violence, and wouldn't hit anyone under any circumstance, bar they struck me first. I don't believe in turning the other cheek.

What if your mother in-law was the famed wrestler, Chyna? Ol'boy, you will be on your knees, saying, "Madam, biko."

akossyy:
our foremothers had naturalbirth and they liveth longer, i dont ever pray to go throught any artifical thing becos i was naturally made above,

I wonder how they coped with the pain with no anesthesia to lessen the pain. Plus having so many children at that time. Goodness! But there is a documented history of a successful ceserean operation in Africa. The webpage is a bit graphic, hence my reluctance to cite it.

"Further detail from the source page: "While Barry applied Western surgical techniques, nineteenth-century travelers in Africa reported instances of indigenous people successfully carrying out the procedure with their own medical practices. In 1879, for example, one British traveller, R.W. Felkin, witnessed cesarean section performed by Ugandans. The healer used banana wine to semi-intoxicate the woman and to cleanse his hands and her abdomen prior to surgery. He used a midline incision and applied cautery to minimize hemorrhaging. He massaged the uterus to make it contract but did not suture it; the abdominal wound was pinned with iron needles and dressed with a paste prepared from roots. The patient recovered well, and Felkin concluded that this technique was well-developed and had clearly been employed for a long time. Similar reports come from Rwanda, where botanical preparations were also used to anesthetize the patient and promote wound healing."

10-year-old gives birth in southern Spain



A 10-year-old girl has given birth in southern Spain and authorities are evaluating whether to let her and her family retain custody of the baby, an official said Tuesday. The baby was born last week in the city of Jerez de la Frontera, said Micaela Navarro, the Andalusia region's social affairs minister.

Navarro told reporters the father of the baby is also a minor, and both the mother and the baby were in good health. Her department declined to give details, including the sex of the baby, but said authorities do not consider this a case of rape and that no criminal investigation is under way.

Under Spanish law, having consensual sex with someone under age 13 is classified as child abuse, an official with the Spanish Justice Ministry in Madrid said. But this particular case is complicated by the fact that the father of the baby is also a minor and it is not clear if he could be charged, the official said.

Spanish newspapers said the mother is of Romanian origin.

The daily Diario de Jerez reported the girl was already pregnant when she arrived in Spain, but did not say when she came to this country. It is not clear if the father is in Spain.

Medical experts warn that because young girls are still growing, they are at higher risk during pregnancy. Studies have shown that teenage girls are more likely to give birth to premature babies and their infants have a higher chance of dying by age one.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/11/02/international/i062642D65.DTL#ixzz14BOB9LkL

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/11/02/international/i062642D65.DTL

Sagamite:
Oyinda, dem don finally dey teach you well o. 

Capitalism is utter trash if not moderated. Absolute rubbish!

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-280487.96.html#msg4033406

It brings out the dark side of humans.

Look at when California deregulated its power industry, the bas-tard traders at Enron purposely seized control of the machinery and started creating artificial power shortages to create lower supply and drive up prices. The traders were making millions a year, whilst the ordinary people were struggling to pay their bills and some had to go without.

Pure Capitalism is thrash!!!

I agree with you on that, or look at Martha Stewart who served time in jail for having access to inside trading. Like you (you can read my comment on the previous page), capitalism should be regulated that is, there ought to be a check and balances, otherwise it gets out of hand. But for the bailouts, the banking industry would have collapsed due to the greed of their CEOS. One of them, Stan O'neil, the black guy, took home over 150 million dollars and I wont be surprised if there were massive layoffs in his bank.

In a capitalistic society, individuals are forced to be innovative to get a headway in the society. Socialism brings about stagnation, laziness and a sense of entitlement. However, capitalism should be practised in moderation, too much of it leads to a wide gulf between the rich and the poor and a total devotion to mammon.

Emmanuel Obe, Awka


Some female students of the Anambra State University have said the continued closure of the university can deny them the opportunity to marry.


http://odili.net/news/source/2010/nov/2/802.html




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The students, who spoke to our correspondent in Awka, said age and time of graduation from the university were serious factors that determine marriage for women in Igboland.

They, therefore, urged the Anambra State Government and the striking workers of the university to urgently resolve their differences and call off the strike to save their future.

One of the female students, Uchenna, who is a social sciences student of the institution, said that these days men wait for girls to graduate from the university or any other higher institution before they approach them for marriage.

"Now if the university is closed down for too long, it may affect my age of graduation, which is another problem because men would not want to marry ladies who have gone past certain age," she said.

The Secretary of the Students' Union Government of the university, Mr. Callistus Ifeanyi, confirmed to our correspondent that the SUG leadership had come under pressure from female students, who wanted them to do something urgent to end the strike.

"It has been four months now and nothing is happening. Students are worried. Our ladies are not at peace with what is happening. Their time is counting. Somebody waiting for you to graduate before he will marry you will just move on to another person," Ifeanyi said.

Our correspondent further gathered from respondents that these days, men do not want to train girls in school before marrying them or even after marrying them.

They want the girls' parents to take full responsibility of training their daughters before they can approach them for marriage.

Nnamdi Okoye, a civil servant in Awka, said men had learnt their lessons. "Time was in the past when some men trained girls in school only for such men to be jilted by the same girls who would feel they had risen above the social class of their benevolent fiancé," he said.

The Head of Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Dr. Peter Ezeah, confirmed that age and education have become serious preconditions for marriage in the Igbo society.

He said the Igbo society still valued marriage and children. And so because younger women were more likely to have more and healthy children, parents still give out their children in marriage at an early age.

He said though the advent of western education had led to delay in the marriage age of girls, there were fears that older women might not be able to give birth.

He said, "By the time a lady enters the university at 17, she should leave at 22, which is the peak of fertility. If she does not finish before 30, she will be considered too old."

On the economic level, Ezeah said bachelors would like to marry women that would assist them with the family income, "so they go for graduates and women who would not constitute economic liabilities to them."

EzeUche0:
Well Maryland is not a city, but a state, but Maryland has the largest numbers of Nigerians. You will find many Igbos and Yorubas in that state. Some live in Baltimore, others live in PG County with a few sprinkled in Howard, Baltimore, and Montgomery County.

More than a few. If we are to go by square mile of each state, then I think the number of Nigerians in Maryland may exceed Texas because Maryland though a small state, has a lot of Nigerians.

Purist:
Not those names exactly, but quite many of them bear English names. Let's even start with the popular guys. Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Lucy Lui, Donny Yen, etc.  I even got one in my class.  Her name is Crystal.

What's your point?

Jackie Chan, SBS, MBE[2] (born Chan Kong-sang, 陳港生; 7 April 1954) is a Hong Kong[3] actor, action choreographer, filmmaker, comedian, director, producer, martial artist, screenwriter, entrepreneur, singer and stunt performer.

http://saharareporters.com/news-page/alan-karp-1989-gordon-bell-prize-judge-debunks-emeagwali%E2%80%99s-father-internet-claims

maedan:
Yep, you're right, their names escaped me for a second. Wish I knew when they went. They look really happy about the whole thing. I'm sure they got some Igbo names for themselves. So much for the pple saying that foreigners don't use Nigerian names .

Seldom do they adopt Nigerian names, or those who do so are the ones interested in connecting with motherland.

Or alternatively, some give their children two names. The English names is the "Official name" that they bear in school and in public, while the native name is the name is "Enyin ufok" used by family members and friends.

I can recall reading a newspaper article (dont know if it's true or not) that Osoba, while he was the Head Honcho of Daily Times, had 20 cars. So is this a case of one being less corrupt than the other?

Some of us would blindly follow the doings of AA people at the detriment of our own dignity. Sagging pants, what will be next tomorrow? Wearing briefs to make a statement publicly?

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-145355.160.html