Sentences with phrase «percentages of young black men»

In early 1963, he produced a report, titled «One - Third of a Nation,» that documented very high percentages of young black men in single - parent families who failed mental and physical tests for the military draft.

And considering that Virginia has done little to address its educational woes — including addressing the mere one - percent decline in the percentage of young black men in fourth - grade mired in functional illiteracy (as measured on the National Assessment of Educational Progress) between 2003 and 2011 — Gov. Bob McDonnell, state Supt. Patricia Wright, and their colleagues were rightfully shamed by reformers and civil rights activists into revamping those targets (and the Obama administration, which also moved to push Virginia into revising them, deserves criticism for accepting those low targets in the first place).

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Fifty - three percent of the Dominion State's young black men in fourth grade were functionally illiterate in 2011, a mere one point decline from nine years ago; this trails the eight percentage point decline nationwide, and the even more dramatic 13 - and 16 point declines in functional illiteracy among young black male fourth - graders in respectively, Florida and Alabama.

These efforts include the Expanded Success Initiative, an educational component of the Office of the Mayor's Young Men's Initiative and a pioneering effort to close the achievement gap by significantly increasing the percentage of Black and Latino young men who complete high school prepared to succeed in college and carYoung Men's Initiative and a pioneering effort to close the achievement gap by significantly increasing the percentage of Black and Latino young men who complete high school prepared to succeed in college and careeMen's Initiative and a pioneering effort to close the achievement gap by significantly increasing the percentage of Black and Latino young men who complete high school prepared to succeed in college and caryoung men who complete high school prepared to succeed in college and careemen who complete high school prepared to succeed in college and careers.