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| | | | Michelle Alexander, featured in the New York Times, arrives in Nebraska to promote social justice movement Saturday, March 10, 2010 People in Omaha, Lincoln, North Platte and Grand Island, Nebraska; Sioux City, Des Moines, Davenport and Iowa City, Iowa; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Minneapolis and Rochester, Minnesota; St. Joseph and Kansas City, Missouri; Overland Park, Topeka and Kansas City, Kansas; Cheyenne, Wyoming; and Denver, Colorado are encouraged to attend this event. Quotes below from New York Times article, March 7, 2012 "Everyone in the African-American community had been seeing exactly what she is talking about but couldn't put it into words," said Phillip Jackson, executive director of the Black Star Project, an educational advocacy group in Chicago. and "It's easy to be completely unaware that this vast new system of racial and social control has emerged," Professor Michelle Alexander said. "Unlike in Jim Crow days, there were no 'Whites Only' signs. This system is out of sight, out of mind." |
| 3 Ways to Save America's Black Boys By Mike Green March 8, 2012 Here are three ways to save America's Black boys: - Change their language
- Invest in their creativity
- Mentor them into the mainstream
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| Concerned Christian Men Mentor and Feed 300 Boys with Monthly Man/Boy Breakfast 
The Concerned Christian Men (CCM) was founded in October 1996 by George D. Glenn, a Harvard-educated native Chicagoan (graduate of Senn High School). CCM's initial and continuing focus has been to provide strong "Black Male" leadership and guidance to young Black boys living on the South Side of Chicago to assist them in becoming positive, contributing members of their communities.
CCM's Flagship activity is the monthly Man-Boy Breakfast that over 29,000 men and boys have attended since 1996 (140 breakfasts). Since April 2002 the breakfasts are held at Simeon Career Academy, a state-of-the-art vocational and academic high school. We average over 300 men and boys for our Man-Boy breakfasts. . |
| Create A "Black Men of Honor" College Fair in Your City by Calling 773.285.9600 |
| In Chicago, New Deadline to Run For Your Local School Council Is March 23, 2012 What Research Says: Researchers Karen Smith Conway, professor of economics at the University of New Hampshire, and her colleague Andrew Houtenville, senior research associate at New Editions Consulting, found that parental involvement has a strong, positive effect on student achievement. "Parental effort is consistently associated with higher levels of achievement, and the magnitude of the effect of parental effort is substantial. We found that schools would need to increase per-pupil spending by more than $1,000 in order to achieve the same results that are gained with parental involvement," Conway said. Nomination forms are due in schools Friday, March 23, 2012, 3:00pm. Please call 773.553.1400 for more information. . |
| One of the best options for educating Black students in America -- Saturday University Please call 773.285.9600 to learn how to start a Saturday University in your city. We have 15 free Saturday Universities operating in and around Chicago. Please call 773.285.9600 to register your child for free academic enhancement or for more information about Saturday University. |
| Black students face tougher discipline in Chicago and the U.S. By ROSALIND ROSSI AND ART GOLAB March 6, 2012 African American students receive disproportionately harsher discipline than non-minorities in schools nationwide - and especially in Chicago, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Monday. Although African American students represented 45 percent of the Chicago Public School enrollment in 2009-2010, 76 percent of students receiving at least one out-of-school suspension that year were black, new federal data from the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights showed. That means CPS's African American students were five times as likely to be suspended as their white peers, relative to their presence in the overall student population. That's the third-highest black-white suspension ratio among 20 big-city districts examined, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis of the federal data indicated. . |
| 'Policing Chicago Schools': Report Suggests In-School Officers Put Teens On Road To Prison CHICAGO - As Chicago Public Schools have become increasingly dependent on the police department to control student behavior on school grounds, a disproportionately high number of black juveniles are being thrust into the criminal justice system too early and too easily, according to data from a new report issued Wednesday by the Chicago youth advocacy group Project NIA. . |
| Black Students Three Times More Likely to Be Retained than White Students Original data analysis was conducted by Michele McNeil and Ms. Shah. March 6, 2012 New nationwide data collected by the U.S. Department of Education's civil rights office reveal stark racial and ethnic disparities in student retentions, with black and Hispanic students far more likely than white students to repeat a grade, especially in elementary and middle school. The contrast is especially strong for African-Americans. In the most extreme case, more than half of all 4th graders retained at the end of the 2009-10 academic year-56 percent-were black, according to the data, which account for about 85 percent of the nation's public school population. In 3rd grade, 49 percent of those held back were black. In all, nearly 1 million students, or 2.3 percent of those enrolled, were retained across K-12, the data show. Black students were nearly three times as likely as white students to be retained, when combining all grade levels. Hispanic students were twice as likely to be held back. |
| | Latinos Launch Bold Education Initiative! Where Is the Bold, Black Education Initiative?  Chicago-The United States Hispanic Leadership Institute (USHLI) today announced the launch of its 2012 Student Leadership Series, the boldest initiative in the Latino community that will challenge over 40,000 students in 40 cities in 30 states to stay in school, improve their academic performance, graduate, and pursue post-secondary education or training. Walmart, furthering their commitment to providing educational opportunities to diverse communities across the country, serves as the Title Sponsor of the Student Leadership Series. Over 3,000 high school students, teachers and counselors, as well as recruiters representing vocational and technical schools, community colleges, and 4-year academic institutions are expected to attend the launch, which will feature former NASA astronaut Dr. Jose Hernandez. |
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