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Ideas to aid black youths: Md. panel proposes tactics for academic success of males.
Byline: Liz Bowie
Dec. 14--To push more black male students toward success, Maryland should turn to academic solutions such as single-sex classrooms and street-level fixes such as pairing ex-convicts with young men in the neighborhood, a panel of education experts told the state school board yesterday. A task force of 45 educators, business leaders and union officials met for two years to prepare a report intended to address a persistent problem in academic achievement for black males in the state. "There is a crushing sense of urgency that permeates this report," said Dunbar Brooks, co-chairman of the task force and vice president of the Maryland State Board of Education. "If we don't make this change, we have failed as a society and a nation." Many of the study's 18 recommendations would be expensive to implement and would require action by local…
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