Positioning young black males for success - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post: This was written by Michael T. Nettles, senior vice president and the Edmund W. Gordon chair of the Educational Testing Service’s Policy Evaluation & Research Center.
By Michael T. Nettles
Top educators, researchers and policy experts met to discuss the crisis facing the country's 3.5 million black boys under the age of 9 years and to discuss community programs that are having a positive impact on their lives.
The Educational Testing Service and the Children’s Defense Fund sponsored the achievement gap symposium, where CDF President Marian Wright Edelman described the life status of black males as:
“A toxic cocktail of poverty, illiteracy, racial disparities, violence, massive incarceration and family breakdown is sentencing millions of children to dead end and hopeless lives and threatens to undermine the past half century of racial and social progress.”
