Seems like boys and school just don’t mix, do they? They just can’t seem to take four to five hours of sitting still at a desk, writing or reading or listening to the teacher. They wriggle, they scratch themselves, they crumple up little pieces of paper, they look around the room to see [...]
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This is reprint of an article from USA Today. I have included the link at the bottom of the post.
‘Not a black thing’: ‘Ghettonation’ examines youth behavior
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald, Special for USA TODAY
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As an educator of over 15 years, a black parent: the mother of three children of my own, I have seen so many black children fall through the cracks and many of them achieve. However, this is not going to a denigration of the school system, but hopefully a guide on how we, as [...]
Readers: This is a reprint of an article that I found here.
African American Children and Identity
By Christine Longmore
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How To Raise Black Boys
Glenn Jeffers
THE struggle to raise African-American males in American society hit Dr. Pearlman Hicks 10 years ago when his then-11-year-old son, Timothy, brought home a report card full of D’s. Timothy, once an A-student, had become angry and unresponsive, his father says, and was “hanging around kids who were just hanging [...]
