(About 19 percent
of black male graduates from HBS had attained similar positions.)
By comparison, at one nearby high school, only 9 %
of black males graduated on time, and at another, only 3 % did so.
Not exact matches
The analysis was inspired by a separate survey
of these
graduates, which found that senior
black female
graduates of HBS had about the same level
of career satisfaction, and similar feelings about the accessibility and opportunities they have for advancement, as
black male Harvard MBAs who were only at junior levels
of their careers.
A disproportionate share
of African - American and Hispanic
males (as well as females) who received their S&E doctorates between 1995 and 1999 attended minority - serving institutions as undergraduates.1 Twenty - five percent
of African Americans and 23 %
of Hispanics receiving S&E doctorates received their bachelor's degrees at historically
black colleges and universities and Hispanic - serving institutions, respectively.1 Minority - serving institutions overachieve in producing much higher numbers (
of either sex)
of minority S&E
graduate success stories than majority institutions.
Her
graduate collection, titled «Afrique» and shown in 2014 on a cast
of black male models, won the L'Oréal Professional Talent Award.
Five percent
of black male college
graduates married.
I asked myself, If our school systems are producing such small numbers
of graduates, what is the purpose
of K — 12 education for
black males?
The 2008 Schott Foundation report on high school graduation among
black males found that only 19 percent
of black males in Indianapolis, 20 percent in Detroit, 27 percent in Norfolk, Virginia, 29 percent in Rochester, New York, and 47 percent nationally were
graduating from high school.
The grim statistics are well known but bear repeating: In Chicago, close to 60 %
of young
Black men do not
graduate from high school; only 6 %
of Black males in the ninth grade will earn a bachelor's degree by age 25; and nearly half
of Black males between the ages
of 20 and 24 are both unemployed and out
of school.
At Urban Prep Charter Academy, Englewood Campus — an all -
black, all -
male Title I school — 100 %
of graduates are accepted to a four - year college or university.
For instance, higher course requirements significantly reduced the probability
of graduating from high school for
blacks and for white
males, but not for white females.
Higher course requirements significantly reduced the probability
of graduating from high school for
blacks and for white
males.
The Schott Foundation for Public Education has issued the numbing finding that «nearly three - quarters
of the
black male students (in the MPS) fail to
graduate with their (9th - grade) cohort.»
La Vonne Neal, dean
of the college
of education at Northern Illinois University, pointed out that the pool
of teaching candidates is automatically limited by the fact that only 52 percent
of black males and 58 percent
of Hispanic
males are
graduating high school at all.
Fewer than half
of those
male Black eighth graders, 97 percent
of whom have not been taught to read well, eventually
graduate.
But what about the college readiness
of male Black Rochester high school
graduates?
I was grinning broadly when he wanted to know more about The Fellowship -
Black Male Educators for Social Justice and the Relay -
Graduate School
of Education program.
He, a young
Black male, from a family who also
graduated from this New York City high school, told me about low expectations, poor quality lessons, and countless stories
of years
of inadequate teaching.
We have schools in New York City where less than 13 %
of Black males are
graduating and can read on grade level.
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.
Fewer than half
of the
male Black and Hispanic students
graduate, which, given the correlation between education and incarceration rates, means that where the road to life - chances divides, these young men are more likely to be propelled along the route that leads through prison rather than that leading through college.
Of the students who graduated high school — a number that hovers around 60 percent — Harrington found that 13 percent of African American males got some sort of post-secondary degree (compared to 19 percent of black females, and 20 percent of the general population
Of the students who
graduated high school — a number that hovers around 60 percent — Harrington found that 13 percent
of African American males got some sort of post-secondary degree (compared to 19 percent of black females, and 20 percent of the general population
of African American
males got some sort
of post-secondary degree (compared to 19 percent of black females, and 20 percent of the general population
of post-secondary degree (compared to 19 percent
of black females, and 20 percent of the general population
of black females, and 20 percent
of the general population
of the general population).
Only 47 percent
of America's
black males graduate from high school on time, according to a new report from a philanthropic organization...
«Many
of my students in the
graduate program are thinking about the work
of Thelma Golden and asking to look at the 1993 Whitney Biennial and «
Black Male» and the kinds
of issues she's brought up at the Studio Museum.»