Sentences with phrase «of black male students»

I plan to change the current conversations regarding strategies on narrowing the achievement gap and create more opportunities for the academic and social advancement of black male students.

In 2014, Minneapolis Public Schools launched their own Office of Black Male Student Achievement, which has already showed promise in improving the academic achievement of its students (Wisely, 2016).

He is the inaugural director for the Office of Black Male Student Achievement, where his sole responsibility is changing outcomes for Black Males who attend MPS.

The true cost of failing to meet the needs of black male students hit me several years ago, when I was principal of a Philadelphia public school inside Curran Fromhold Correctional Facility.

... sports participation has a negative effect on the educational attainment of white male student athletes, a positive effect on the educational attainment and earnings of black male student athletes, and a positive effect on the educational attainment of white female student athletes.

Suspensions of black male students have dropped by more than half in six years, and juvenile lockups have dropped by 40 percent.

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.»

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.

Hundreds of black male students look to benefit from mentoring, career advice and general support as a project to reduce truancy and increase graduation rates among that demographic was announced Wednesday.

When Police Intervene: Race, Gender and Discipline of Black Male Students at an Urban High School

Thus, white males in schools and districts with large percentages of black male students are also likely to experience poor outcomes because of systemic decisions not to commit resources to those districts and schools.

In 2015, Washington, D.C., where only about a third of black male students are proficient in reading and math, invested $ 20 million in new support programs specifically for black and Latino male students in the district.

Under his leadership, Schott continued to release its biennial Black Boys Report series, which has provided the data fueling philanthropic, governmental and activist campaigns nationwide to improve the achievement of black male students in public education.

In my own research (Milner, 2010), I found that black male teachers often develop curriculum and instructional practices that align with the interests and needs of their black male students.

The Office of Black Male Student Achievement (OBMSA) is an office designed to support black males in Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) to affectively change the trajectory of their academic outcomes.

As the family and community coordinator for the Office of Black Male Student Achievement (OBMSA), Andria works with parents to understand how important it is to be involved in their children's education from cradle to career.