Sentences with phrase «black male students now»

Even better, 80 percent of black male students now graduate within six years, which is slightly higher than the rate for black females and an improvement of 18 percentage points.

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As part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg» s initiative on black and Latino males, a school now gets extra points for making significant progress with students in that group whose prior performance has put them in the lowest third academically.

Before entering high school, most Urban Prep students didn't know anybody who went to college, and now they see their mainly black, male teachers and staff as college graduate role models who reflect their image.

I realize now that part of the reason that I never felt pressed to attend, was because I had been privileged to work in school communities (mostly) that believed in me as a Black male educator, that were full of Black men choosing to show up excellent for the students that we served, and that supported my growth.