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Can All-Male High Schools Boost African-American Boys' Graduation Rates?
By Joie Jager-Hyman
Village Voice
Once relegated to the realm of private and parochial, single-sex public schools are rapidly gaining popularity. In October 2006, the U.S. Department of Education instituted new regulations that cleared the way for public school districts to open more single-sex charter schools by no longer requiring that they must offer comparable single-sex options for the other gender. That meant that as long as they offered comparable co-educational options, districts became free to open an all-boys charter school without having to open an all-girls one, and vice versa. Educators quickly took advantage of the new regulations and, according to the National Association for Single Sex Public Education, 542 public schools now offer single-sex classes, other than physical education, for both girls and boys, up from only 11 schools in 2002. Approximately 95 of these are single-sex schools, like Eagle Academy, and many belong to the recently formed Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color, or COSEBOC.
http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-07-28/news/can-all-male-high-schools-boost-african-american-boys-graduation-rates/
First Annual TYWLS and Eagle Field Day
On Wednesday June 22, 2009 the Eagle Academy for Young Men at Ocean Hill hosted the first annual field day with its sister school The Young Women's Leadership Academy of Brooklyn. The event opened with a sixty minute fact finding activity in which the young ladies and young men were required to ask a series of questions to a peer from the opposite school. Click here to read more about this exciting event.
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Lessons for All the “Little Obamas”
By Tim King
As the dust settles on the Inauguration ceremonies of our 44th President, I find myself wondering what lesson should my students and all of our children learn from the election of our first African-American President? This question is even more pressing given this is the first Black History Month in which our eyes are focused, thanks to Obama, more on the achievements of African-Americans in the present than the past.
Most Americans watched President Obama’s ascent to political prominence and global celebrity from afar. Chicagoans, like me, have had a more intimate view of his maturation from local politician, to U.S. Senator and bona-fide power-broker, to our country’s President. We have walked the same streets, sat in the same church pews, and shepherded children into the same schools as the man who would be President. We regale friends and associates with stories of the time we spotted him in Starbucks or dined at the same restaurant. We like to tell ourselves that our contributions to his earliest campaigns for local political posts helped propel him to the oval office. We’re not hitching a ride on the Obama bandwagon, we are the bandwagon.
So is the Obama lesson we teach our children, pick the right person early and hold on for the meteoric rise? Or is the lesson that anything is possible? Or is it that the American public can love a Black man who isn’t a sports star or rapper? To read the full text of this article, please click here.
Harvard, Stamford and Notre Dame: The First Graduates of the Irma Rangel Leadership School are off to College!
The Irma Rangel Leadership School in Dallas, Texas opened its doors in 2004 with 7th and 8th grades as the result of a partnership between the Dallas ISD and the Foundation for the Education of Young Women. In June 2009, the school will graduate it first class with 21 students. Eighteen of these students have been in the same class since middle school. Three of these students joined the next operational year. One hundred percent of these young ladies will attend universities and colleges across the United States. This class has amassed over one million dollars in scholarship funds.