Atlanta Thought Leader's Education Reform Article Featured in Harvard Public Policy Journal

ATLANTA - May 10, 2013 - PRLog -- Atlanta Change Agent and Thought Leader, Vince Rogers’ article "The Specter of Slavery" is featured in the 2013 Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy. His groundbreaking commentary is included in the journal alongside the contributions of such luminaries as prominent writers Darnell L. Moore and Ta-Nahesi Coates, as well as the legendary sociologist William Julius Wilson. The central thesis of the paper is that the deliberate misallocation of education to Black-Americans has directly contributed to declining American economic viability. Essentially, he argues that many of the modern challenges facing our economy can be directly linked to policies that have failed to provide the quality and quantity of education necessary to transform the lives of all citizens since the time of the Emancipation Proclamation and have continued on to the present.

         “As was so ineloquently posited by the 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, arguably as many as half of Americans receive some form of income replacement or enhancement from the federal government. The question of how this condition came into existence is no less important than the question of why, historically, Blacks are disproportionately poorer than Whites. Anecdotally, laziness has become accepted as a more adequate answer to this question than an examination of the historical misallocation of education to Black Americans. I believe that the legacy of American public policy aimed at maintaining the trappings of slavery and educational inequity is a more plausible explanation than laziness.”  

Vince Rogers is a founding member of Georgians for Leadership in Education, Advocate for Reform Now! – G-LEARN!, a group dedicated to public education reform in Georgia, and a former member of the Board of Directors of Operation P.E.A.C.E., an after-school education program, summer learning academy, and teen leadership program that serves Atlanta’s “Boulevard Corridor,” the highest concentration of poverty in the southeastern United States. He received his economics training at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. He is an alumnus of the Policy Institute for Civic Leadership, a program of Georgia STAND-UP, the foremost regional community development “think and act tank” in the South.

The 2013 Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy is published annually by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The mission of the Journal is to educate and provide leadership that improves the quality of public policies affecting the African American community. In so doing, they hope to further the economic, social, and political empowerment of African Americans. The Journal may ordered @http://www.events.harvard.edu/profile/form/index.cfm?PKfo...

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