LOL, it's real "fun" to post a headline that supports your position, but it's even more fun to
analyze the report and find facts like this:
"We remain frustratingly short of our best ambitions
in this work.
But in the matter of graduating
our kids, especially our African American male
students, we have made enormous strides. In the
period from 2006-07 to 2010-11, the
dropout
rate for all students in the district declined from
9.4% to 4.2% — a 55% decrease. Our Black male
students were an engine for this progress, with
dropouts declining from
11.9% to 5.0% in the
same timeframe:
a decrease of 58%. In 2010-
11, the first year that Maryland reported cohort
graduation rates that tracked every individual
student over time,
87% of our students who had
entered high school in 2007-08 had either graduated
or were still in school."
"Over the past nine years, there has been progress in the national graduation rate for male
students across the board. The national graduation rate for Black males has increased by 10
percentage points, from
42% in 2001-02 to
52% in 2009-10. This is the first year that more than half of the nationÂ’s Black males in Grade 9 graduated with regular diplomas four years later."
Alaska 71%
Arizona 84%
Idaho 73%
Maine 97%
Oregon 72%
Utah 76%
Vermont 82%
There are plenty of other states that have over 52%, I thought that some conservatives and republicans claim that they "don't see color" and "don't break people up into groups (unless it's Blacks obviously)" , as well as "concentrate on the individual"?
"As Table 2 indicates, states with conspicuously large gaps between their graduation rates
for Black and White, non-Latino male students include the District of Columbia (50%),
Iowa (49%), Nebraska (43%) and New York (42%). As in previous years, states with relatively small Black populations achieve high graduation rates for Black male students (Maine, Utah,Vermont, Idaho).
This seems to indicate that Black males, on average, perform better in places and spaces where they are not relegated to under-resourced districts or schools. When provided similar opportunities they are more likely to produce similar or better outcomes as their White male peers."
"On average,
states with low graduation rates for Black male students (New York, Nebraska,
South Carolina, Delaware, Illinois, Florida)
tend to have concentrations of those students in under-resourced districts (New York City, Charleston, Duval County, FL and Chicago)
where both Black and White male students perform poorly."
The funny thing about the study, is how they saw certain people "coming" when they closed with this:
"
Historically, a common reaction to these data outcomes has been to make a leap from poor graduation outcomes for Black males
to the formation and promotion of negative public perceptions of Black malesÂ’ abilities and roles in society. Let us be clear:
The Schott Foundation firmly believes that these data are not indicative of a character flaw in Black boys and men, but rather they are evidence of an unconscionable level of willful neglect and disparate resource allocations by federal, state and local entities and a level of indifference by too many community leaders. Yet, despite these challenges,
many Black males progress to further education and work in communities across the nation making positive impacts— accomplishments given not nearly as much public attention as the negative perceptions are given."