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Positioning young black males for success
- 06-23-2011
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Guest blog by Michael T. Nettles/Washington Post
Top educators, researchers and policy experts met to discuss the crisis facing the country's 3.5 million black boys under the age of 9 years and to discuss community programs that are having a positive impact on their lives. The Educational Testing Service and the Children’s Defense Fund sponsored the achievement gap symposium, where CDF President Marian Wright Edelman described the life status of black males as: “A toxic cocktail of poverty, illiteracy, racial disparities, violence, massive incarceration and family breakdown is sentencing millions of children to dead end and hopeless lives and threatens to undermine the past half century of racial and social progress.” Here are some startling and sad statistics about black males that reinforce the need for intervention with the young now, not later: (more...)
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