Weekly News Round-Up: Jan. 2-8
Startlingly sensible achievement gap fix
Jay Mathews, The Washington Post, 1/5/12
School board picks first black president
Trevon Milliard, Las Vegas Review-Journal, 1/4/11
Milwaukee Journalist Eugene Kane: Black Youth Are 2011 Boogeyman
Jorge Rivas, Colorlines, 1/4/12
Walter Dean Myers named national ambassador for youth literature
Staff Writer, LA Times, 1/5/11
White House announces youth summer jobs program
Joe Sims, Peoples World, 1/5/12
Black Leaders Applaud White House Youth Jobs Initiative
Joyce Jones, BET News, 1/6/12
The future of Black political power?
Dr. Leon Finney Jr., The Chicago Defender, 1/7/12