The Boston Foundation 5-8 pm

Renaissance Charter School Chorus under the direction of Evelyn Lee Jones entertains before the program

A panel discussion on the issue of single gender schools, particularly for Black boys, was the program at the Boston Foundation on Arlington Street in Boston. The issue boiled down to whether there can be clear research supporting single gender schools, and with that, foundation support, or whether they're worth a try since we have no better alternative, or because we understand Black boys and how to teach them. All these positions were represented.


Panelists were Diane Wilkerson, Massachusetts State Senator, Sonni Holland, Program Officer, The Charles Hayden foundation, Benjamin Wright, Regional Director Victory Schools, PA and Dr. Ronald Mincy, Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice at Columbia University

Dr. Edmund Gordon, Richard March Hoe Professor of Psychology and Education emeritus and Director of the Institute of Urban and Minority Education, (IUME) at Teachers College, Columbia University, presented a cogent 30 minute talk on education in general. He is,as Moderator Larry Leverett said, a million dollar professor.