Learning to Excel in School: Jesse Jackson tells black teens: "Nobody can save us but us".

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      UNIVERSITY of California, Davis
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      JACKSON, Jesse, 1941-; BAKKE, Allan Paul, 1940-
    • Abstract:
      The article focuses on Reverend Jesse Jackson's goal on his EXCEL project, a self-help regimen for students, as well as parents that reached 21 schools in Chicago, Illinois. It states that Jackson told the underclass blacks to take responsibility for their upward mobility and quality of lives. It also states that Jackson criticized the Supreme Court decision accepting Allan Bakke to a University of California medical school on the basis of potential risk to affirmative action programs. It says that Jackson also calls for renewed cooperation among students, parents, and teachers as he accuses an abdication of responsibility for lowered U.S. educational standards. It states that Jackson's principles have led to lower absenteeism in Central High School in Kansas City, Missouri for 1976-1977.