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Opinion: Black High School Dropout Crisis Calls for New Approach
By Michael Arceneaux - AOL News(Sept. 3) -- A generation of black men run the risk of not being qualified to operate an on/off switch. That's almost no exaggeration. In the 2010 "Yes We Can: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males," the Schott Foundation reports that the overall 2007-08 graduation rate for black males in the U.S. was only 47 percent. And in about half the states, black male graduation rates fell even below that paltry figure. It's a sad irony, given that our nation's first president of color's intellect was heralded as a major factor in his ascension to the most powerful office in ...
Dropouts Targeted by New Obama Plan for Underperforming Schools
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyWhen President Obama delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress a year ago, he talked about the national problem of youngsters quitting high school. "Dropping out of high school is no longer an option," Obama said. "It's not just quitting on yourself, it's quitting on your country -- and this country needs and values the talents of every American." And in his back-to-school address last September, Obama again appealed to students: "You cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You've got to train for it and work for it and learn for it." A month later, in ...
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