Sunday, September 5, 2010

Educators: System Sets Up Black Boys to Fail

Michael Cottman Educators: System Sets Up Black Boys to Fail
A coalition of African-Americans educators say the nation’s public school system is giving up on black male students and setting them up to fail.

This alarming quandary is being described as a national education crisis - and that’s not overstating the problem.

According to “Yes We Can: The 2010 Schott 50 State Report on Black Males in Public Education,” the overall 2007-2008 graduation rate for black males in the U.S. was only 47 percent, and half of the states have graduation rates for black male students below the national average.  Read more...


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