{"id":23301,"date":"2011-09-15T10:15:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T14:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=23301"},"modified":"2011-09-20T15:58:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T19:58:33","slug":"its-time-to-take-the-black-male-achievement-crisis-seriously-dwyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/09\/15\/its-time-to-take-the-black-male-achievement-crisis-seriously-dwyer\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s time to take the black male achievement crisis seriously [Dwyer]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.good.is\/post\/it-s-time-to-take-the-black-male-achievement-crisis-seriously\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>It&#8217;s time to take the black male achievement crisis seriously<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from good.is Liz Dwyer<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Despite the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.good.is\/post\/new-report-puts-the-black-male-achievement-crisis-in-the-spotlight\/\" target=\"_blank\">dire statistics<\/a> on how the education system fails black males\u2014only 50 percent of them graduate from high school\u2014the issue generally isn&#8217;t addressed with a sense of urgency. So veteran broadcaster Tavis Smiley has committed to spending the next year asking tough questions and finding solutions to the problem. He kicked off the effort last night with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/tavissmiley\/tsr\/too-important-to-fail\/?gclid=CPusneeznasCFQl76wodARLVfw\" target=\"_blank\">Too Important to Fail<\/a>,&#8221; an hour-long PBS special featuring interviews with education experts and black male students in Chicago, Philadelphia, Oakland, and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Also see:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/tavissmiley\/tsr\/too-important-to-fail\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23304\" title=\"TooImportantToFail-Sept2011\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/TooImportantToFail-Sept2011.jpg\" alt=\"Too Important to Fail \" width=\"277\" height=\"493\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/TooImportantToFail-Sept2011.jpg 277w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/TooImportantToFail-Sept2011-84x150.jpg 84w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Addendum on 9\/20\/11:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hetl.org\/2011\/09\/17\/feeding-the-pipeline\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Feeding the pipeline: Helping students of color write college entrance essays for the university 2.0<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to take the black male achievement crisis seriously &#8212; from good.is Liz Dwyer Excerpt: Despite the dire statistics on how the education system fails black males\u2014only 50 percent of them graduate from high school\u2014the issue generally isn&#8217;t addressed with a sense of urgency. So veteran broadcaster Tavis Smiley has committed to spending the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,347,46,480,321],"tags":[737,739,494,4,792,728],"class_list":["post-23301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-education-reform","category-k-12-related","category-society","category-united-states","tag-education","tag-education-reform","tag-justice","tag-k-12","tag-society","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23301"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23443,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23301\/revisions\/23443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}