This includes 20,000 teachers, including some 1,000 teachers working in traditional public and public charter schools thanks to Teach for America, who are helping
poor and minority children gain the knowledge they need for lifelong success.
This need for cultures that reaffirm the self - worth of
poor and minority children (
and ultimately, allow for them
and their communities
gain the knowledge needed to determine their own destinies) is why historically black colleges
and universities, along with other
minority - serving higher ed institutions, still exist.