The Black Youth Project Adds a New Voice to the Education Reform Conversation - Education - GOOD

The award-winning University of Chicago political scientist Cathy Cohen is the Lead Investigator for the Black Youth Project, an online research-based hub for black youth between the ages of 15 and 25. The project's new media approach moves the learning about black youth “attitudes, actions and decision making” beyond the ivory tower of academia and into the hands of teachers, student advocates, and black youth themselves. The site includes everything from downloadable social justice curricula and a comprehensive rap lyric database, to blogs by and for young black youth. Cohen highlights some of the resources educators can bring into the classroom, and what black youth, in particular, black males, have to say about schools. - GOOD