New America Media
- A coalition of African-Americans educators say the nation’s public school system is giving up on black male students and setting them up to fail.
This alarming quandary is being described as a national education crisis – and that’s not overstating the problem.
According to “Yes We Can: The 2010 Schott 50 State Report on Black Males in Public Education,” the overall 2007-2008 graduation rate for black males in the U.S. was only 47 percent, and half of the states have graduation rates for black male students below the national average.
The report highlights concerns that New York’s graduation rate for its Regents diploma is only 25 percent for black male students.
New York City, the district with the nation’s highest enrollment of black students, only graduates 28 percent of its black males with Regents diplomas on time. Overall, each year, more than 100,000 black male students in New York City do not graduate from high school.
