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America Has Lost A Generation Of Black Boys |
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 There is no longer a need for dire predictions, hand-wringing, or apprehension about losing a generation of black boys. It is too late. In education, employment, economics, incarceration, health, housing, and parenting, we have lost a generation of young black men.
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Stop the Pipeline to Prison |
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 Nationally, 1 in 3 Black and 1 in 6 Latino boys born in 2001 are at risk of imprisonment during their lifetime. While boys are five times as likely to be incarcerated as girls, there also is a significant number of girls in the juvenile justice system. This rate of incarceration is endangering children at younger and younger ages.
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The Trouble with Boys |
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Spend a few minutes on the phone with Danny Frankhuizen and you come away thinking, "What a nice boy." He's thoughtful, articulate, bright. He has a good relationship with his mom, goes to church every Sunday, loves the rock band Phish and spends hours each day practicing his guitar.
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Black Boys: The Sad Facts |
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The most compelling case behind the vulnerability of black boys in school comes from these selected findings collected by the Schott Foundation.
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Saving Our Sons In School |
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If you live or teach in an urban or predominantly Black area, you shouldn’t need any statistics to tell you that the already deplorable crisis of young Black males in school is rapidly getting worse. And with the dawning of each new generation, our sons’ great disdain towards school grows exponentially.
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