Lifting Minority Achievement: Complex Answers
Once
a month or so, a group of African-American juniors and seniors at
Shaker Heights High School trades T-shirts and jeans for dress shirts
and ties.
The buttoned-down attire is meant to strengthen the message these young men want to send to their younger, less studious schoolmates in this integrated Cleveland suburb. Look at us, they are saying: We are black, we are smart, and we are proud.
The Minority Achievement Committee, or MAC scholars program, is Shaker Heights' best-known antidote to the nagging academic achievement gap that separates black and Hispanic students from their white and Asian-American counterparts here and in schools nationwide. On average, they start school trailing behind white and Asian children and never catch up, lagging on national tests in every subject—sometimes...
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