Here are two articles about the failure of our schools and communities to educate Black Male Youth. The upcoming Gathering of Black School Leaders (June 3, 4, & 5) in Boston will be addressing these very issues.

Finding Ways to Better School African American Boys
Group Proposes Mentors, Single-Sex Classrooms

By Lori Aratani
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 17, 2007; Page T03
A new report by a statewide task force that paints a grim picture of how African American male students are faring in Maryland's public schools and universities recommends strengthening mentor programs, encouraging more black men to be teachers and providing more academic support for those who need it.

Black boys' culture works against school, study says

Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Robert L. Smith
Cleveland Plain Dealer Reporter
The achievement gap separating black boys from just about everyone else springs from a powerful, anti-education culture rising in the black community, a local black think tank argues in a new report.