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White-Hood, Marian – Schools in the Middle, 1994
Young African American males' role models are those in the entertainment and sports arenas. Few see themselves as scholars, contributing to the common good. To counteract teachers' low expectations of black males' performance, educators at Benjamin Tasker Middle School in Bowie, Maryland, established African-American Achievers, a program that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Blacks, Intermediate Grades
