88 percent of Blacks Have a High School Diploma, 26 percent a bachelor’s degree
About 90 percent of the U.S. population has graduated high school, a dramatic improvement in educational attainment that began when compulsory education was adopted by every state a century ago.
But the most striking social shift is the shrinking of the high school attainment gap between Blacks and the national average.
In 1940, when the U.S. Census Bureau started asking about educational attainment, only 7percent of
Blacks had a high school education, compared with 24 percent for the nation as a whole.
In 1940, less than 5 percent of all adults and only 1 percent of Blacks had completed four years of college. The persistent gap in rates between Blacks and the national average was 4 percentage points at that time, while Black college completion was one-fourth the national rate.
In 2019, both groups had much higher college attainment rates overall, with the national average at 36 percent, while 26 percent of Blacks ages 25 and older had attained a bachelor’s degree. Despite the percentage point gap, Black college completion has grown closer to about three-quarters of the national average.
Public school student demographics show White students make up 47.0 percent, Hispanic students, roughly 27.2 percent; and Black students: 15.1 percent. Conversely, public school teacher demographics note White teachers make up 79.3 percent of the teaching body, Hispanics, 9.3 percent; and Black teachers, only 6.7 percent.
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The decline of education within Black Communities attributed to the decline in the stature of the collegiate era. During the 1950s, after Brown v. Topeka, many transitioned to TWI and forsook HBCUs. The Department of Labor released a report by Daniel Moynihan titled” The Negro Family: The Case for National Action”, in which he states :
“The most difficult fact for white Americans to understand is that in these terms, the circumstances of the Black American community in recent years has probably been getting worse, not better. Indices of dollars of income, standards of living, and years of education deceive. The gap between the Negro and most other groups in American society is widening.” With the rise of college graduates, the indices were supplanted by drugs and prison terms. Ending a “Honeymoon period” of improvement in education. Today, with low literacy rates and “Common Core” curricula, Blacks are being pushed back again. Parents, universally instructed children at home to “work twice as hard to achieve commanding grades.”