North Carolina researchers analyzing another large data set found similar results in 2007.27 More recently, in a study published by the Institute of Labor Economics, researchers and university economists found that low -
income black male students in North Carolina who have just one black teacher in third, fourth, or fifth grade are less likely to drop out of high school and more likely to consider attending college.
For example, one recent study found that low -
income black male students were 39 percent less likely to drop out by high school if they were assigned to a black teacher in 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade (Gershenson et al., 2017).
Not exact matches
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Among public universities whose
student populations are at least 5 percent
black and one - quarter low -
income, Rutgers - Newark had the second - highest
black male graduation rate in the nation in 2013 and the fifth - highest
black graduation rate overall.
Graduation rates for
black males increased by nearly 10 percentage points and for low -
income students by 11.2 percentage points; and
Counselor support can also make a tremendous difference for
students from low -
income families and
students from underrepresented groups, as in the examples of counselors helping
students of Mexican descent build stronger relationships at school (Malott et al., 2010) and increasing the sense of empowerment and aspiration among
Black males (Wyatt, 2009).