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June 18, 2008

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First Parent Training Sponsored by Polk County Decat Grant – A Partnership between Education Brain Trust & Ask Resource Center

Tom Joyner Foundation Renews Winning Partnership with National Education Association

Group Vows to Boost Parental Involvement in Schools, Stem the Flow of Blacks into Prison
        Iowa Independent
        Monday, May 5, 2008

School Summits target minority parents
       Des Moines Register
       Monday, April 28, 2008

 

 

"By their mid-30's, 6 in 10 black men who have dropped out of school will have spent time in prison."
- "Reconnecting Disadvantaged Young Men"
(Urban Institute Press, 2006)

Recent Research and News Stories

• Engaging Parents in Raising Achievement
  Do parents know they matter?
  by Professor Alma Harris and Dr. Jane Goodall
  University of Warwick
  
  
• Plight Deepens for Black Men, Studies Warn
  March 20, 2006, New York Times
  by ERIK ECKHOLM
  
• Black Males Left Behind
  edited by Ronald B. Mincy
  Available from the Urban Institute Press
   
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  Preparing All Students for College, Career, and Life
  Every young person in the U.S. needs—and deserves—the chance to attend strong schools.

"Among black dropouts in their late 20's, more are in prison on a given day —
34 percent — than are working — 30 percent."
— according to an analysis of 2000 census data by
Steven Raphael, University of California, Berkeley.