Kevin Drum has some white man's burden

Kevin Drum: cites a study:

Compared to black teachers, teachers of other races thought their black students had a far higher chance of dropping out and a far lower chance of completing college. Since the baseline expectation of dropping out was 31 percent for black students, a change of 12 percentage points represents a whopping 39 percent increase. Likewise, the baseline expectation of a college degree was 37 percent for black students, so a change of 9 percentage points represents 24 percent decrease.

Kevin titles his post:

White Teachers Think Pretty Poorly of Their Black Students

What are the facts:

EdWeek: While the nation's graduation rate, including that of black and Latino males, has continued to grow, the gap between black males and their white peers has widened, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Schott Foundation for Public Education.

The report, "Black Lives Matter: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males," is the fifth such study the foundation has released on the state of black males in public education.

Since the last report in 2012, the gap between the four-year graduation rate for black males and white males widened from 19 points in the 2009-10 school year to 21 points in the 2012-13 year.  For Latinos, the gap shrunk to 15 points from 20 during that same period, according to the report. '

Now the study says non-black teachers seem to know the statistics.  An alternative implication is that Black teachers do not. I plowed through the research a bit, they got a mass of data.  But their conclusion was not that white teachers must bear a burden.  Let's check with Angry Asian Man, I propose the Asians bear the burden this time.

What is the reality?
Any healthy student can get a college degree in the US.  It might cost a lot of student debt, it may be a basket weaving degree and the professors ignorant louts but it is still a college degree.

And, if you do not have a high school degree, then go enroll in adult on-line, or local adult and get the GED, easily done by anyone with the fortitude.  The family has to value learning as a foundation.