Ivory A. Toldson, a professor of counseling psychology at Howard University, has a new book with a mouthful of a title but an important message: “NO BS (Bad Stats): Black People Need People Who Believe in Black People Enough Not to Believe Every Bad Thing They Hear About BLACK PEOPLE.”
The book, as the title suggests, addresses myths about black students and debunks with them data and logic. The post below was written by Toldson, who takes three of the myths head on.
Toldson is also the president of Quality Education for Minorities, editor in chief of the Journal of Negro Education and executive editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Research, published by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation….