Sentences with phrase «among young black men»

When Phillip Jackson founded the Black Star Project in 1996, few school reformers had fully focused on the crisis of low educational attainment among young black men.

It is the work of experts that has led to such practices as the overuse of suspensions and expulsions, and the overdiagnosis of learning disabilities (especially among young black men, whose reading deficiencies are often diagnosed as being special ed problems).

The gains are especially impressive among young black men, 42.3 percent of whom enroll in college as opposed to 31 percent of their peers in the control group.

More importantly, families are recognizing that the «experts» really don't know what they are doing, that it is the very practices championed by traditionalists — from near - lifetime employment for teachers regardless of their ability to help kids succeed;, to the overuse of the overdiagnosis of learning disabilities (especially among young black men, whose reading deficiencies are often diagnosed as being special ed problems)-- are the underlying reason why schools fail to improve student achievement.

Not exact matches

I see why Islam is the fastest grwoing religion among young urban Black men.

When Abel tells a wayward young black father to man up and be a steward for his baby or have his motherfucking head blown off, there's something — not something subtle, but something nonetheless — fascinating about Lakeview Terrace's willingness to be a survey of the element of the race debate (the Bill Cosby voice of black reason, for instance, or the Barack Obama message of the same) that causes the most confusion and consternation among the ruling class.

* Among other options, you can find straightforward decency, as evidenced by Captain America (Chris Evans); wayward pilgrims in search of redemption, like Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Gamora (Zoe Saldana) and Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan); rakes, including Stark and Quill; talented people of privilege learning to carry the mantle of responsibility, including Doctor Strange and Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman); goofballs such Ant - Man (Paul Rudd); and promising young people, including Peter Parker and Shuri (Letitia Wright).

But the central problem that drove me down this road in the first place — the lack of educational and career success among young black and brown men — has garnered very little attention.

Among black young men who were behind bars in 2008, 37 percent were high school dropouts.

[11] Arrests rates are particularly high among young men of color: 44 percent of Hispanic men, and 49 percent of black men have been arrested at least once by the age of 23, compared to 38 percent of white men.

It has also not done well in closing achievement gaps, especially among young black and Latino men.

But along with a similar initiative launched last year by the administration to expand educational opportunities for Native American kids (and slowly revamp the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education), the new effort does bring attention to the low educational achievement among young black children — especially young black men — and reinforces Obama's generally laudable record as School Reformer - in - Chief.

Fifty - three percent of the Dominion State's young black men in fourth grade were functionally illiterate in 2011, a mere one point decline from nine years ago; this trails the eight percentage point decline nationwide, and the even more dramatic 13 - and 16 point declines in functional illiteracy among young black male fourth - graders in respectively, Florida and Alabama.

Joining the march, she meets Caleb, a young black man whose manner of dress and comfort with the white Union soldiers raises an eyebrow among Mariah and other formerly enslaved people.

Among their many tenants who are constantly evicted or in danger of being thrown out are Arleen, a young black woman with two boys; Lamar, a black disabled man with two sons struggling to find a place of his own; Larraine, a white woman struggling to make rent with no job prospects, and Scott, a white gay drug addict who loses his nursing license.

However, the deadly carnage that those young black men inflict upon the least among us is not ethereal.