Sentences with phrase «educate black boys»

It is a solution to the many issues we've been advocating for and around, specifically how to effectively educate Black boys.

He asks questions like can white teachers educate black boys, but in his lower school there is only one African American male educator that actually teaches in the classroom.

by David McGuire Many would argue that a great school, quality teachers, and a well - rounded curriculum are the most important factors to educating a black boy.

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On most days, King says, those things take a back seat to doing what matters most to him as a teacher: imparting life lessons to Black boys that he, alone, can deliver and that they can grasp and embrace; and it is being the face of the professional, college - educated, Black man that some of his students rarely get to meet.

This idea that if you're a poor black boy, you might not have a lot of contact with college educated folks who look like you, and spending a year with a teacher who is also black and who is college educated, might allow them to imagine themselves in that kind of a role, and shift their own expectations and aspirations,» Papageorge told the Huffington Post, although he does not know if the role model effect influenced his study.

Looking at the issue of gender with a racial lens, this new area of Schott's work — including the ongoing biennial report series on Black Boys educational achievement nationwide — has led school districts across the country to re-examine how they educate and measure the outcomes of the students who are most vulnerable to failure in the education system.