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Article: Educating African American Males: Voices From the Field.
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- August 1, 2006
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Educating African American Males: Voices From the Field Edited by Olatokunbo S. Fashlola, Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, Calif., 2005, 296 pp., $34.95 softcover
A front-page story in The New York Times earlier this year, "Plight Deepens for Black Men, Studies Warn," announced the release of the latest doom and gloom statistics from studies at Harvard, Princeton and Columbia on the condition of African American males. As usual, the studies carefully describe the problems but fail to offer any solutions.
Educating African American Males: Voices From the Field offers a refreshing alternative to the mere recitation of the all-too-familiar bad news. The ...