Panelists at the annual NAACP convention said Thursday that pushing more black youths to graduate high school and college will lead to dramatically lower rates of incarceration, recidivism and joblessness.
Yale University law professor James Foreman Jr. says the quality of education in urban schools also must be raised in order to boost critical thinking skills essential for today's job market.
Foreman says part of the reason for the low achievement of some black men is that the manufacturing job base relied on in the minority community for decades has disappeared.
