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Minority Males Falling Behind
February 10, 2010
Let me do it. You tell me when you want it and where you want it to land, and I’ll do it backwards and tell you when to take off.
-Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician, 1918-2020
-Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician, 1918-2020
In The Educational Crisis Facing Young Men of Color, the College Board gathered the insights and firsthand experiences of more than 60 scholars, practitioners, and activists from the African American, Latino, Asian-American/Pacific Islanders, and Native American communities. The 42-page report gives a detailed portrait of lagging educational attainment by African-American, Hispanic, Asian-American, Pacific Islander, and Native American males in comparison with other groups and minority women. (Among Asian-Americans, the data trends were disaggregated to show the most vulnerable population are males of Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander descent, in comparison with those of Northeast Asian descent.)
At the study's unveiling, Gaston Caperton, president of the College Board, said it describes "young men who are so far removed from our opportunity culture that they almost have no hope of contributing to our social and our economic growth. As a result, they live in despair, hopelessness, and too often violence and incarceration."
The powerful video, Expect Male Involvement: Recruiting & Retaining Men in Early Childhood Education, explores the positive benefits of having men in your Early Childhood Education program. Watch it to learn why men choose Early Childhood Education as a career, best practices for recruitment and retention, and the significance of men in young children's lives.ExchangeEveryDay
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Displaying 1 CommentDenver, CO., United States
I have two immediate thoughts: 1) in 1991 Exchange published an article I wrote titled, Are We Shortchanging Boys? As I recall the article produced considerable consternation from those who believed, as many still do today, that it is girls who struggle in our schools, and not boys.
2) It is curious to me that the producers of this document divided the Asain group into two distint subgroups (maybe this is simpy an admission of some of the problems with looking at these large demographic groups). If we look at the Asian group in general, they are quite successful in our society, especially in education, where they tend to exceed white students. I wonder why we don't celebrate this fact, and why we don't study how it is that this minority group is so successful?
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