He asserted, ``... where some of America's best public schools
educating some of America's
blackest and most disadvantaged kids are concerned, the NAACP's duplicitous engagement of
black folks on the issue of charter schools is the worst kind of betrayal.»
This idea that if you're a poor
black boy, you might not have a lot of contact with college
educated folks who look like you, and spending a year with a teacher who is also
black and who is college
educated, might allow them to imagine themselves in that kind of a role, and shift their own expectations and aspirations,» Papageorge told the Huffington Post, although he does not know if the role model effect influenced his study.