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According to a new report, 24 percent of black students were suspended from school in the 2009-10 academic year, as opposed to just 7.1 percent of white students. These suspensions are usually the result of nonviolent infractions, like lateness or dress code violations.

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, an astounding 9 out of 10 Chicago Public School students potentially impacted by school closures are African American. Shameful.

According to a recent report, Black students display significant learning gaps by the 2nd grade, and they only grow larger with age. If these trends persist, only 1 in 20 black kindergartners will go on to graduate from a 4-year university. What needs to be done to close this gap?

According to a recent study, black students whose families instill in them a sense of racial pride do better in school. The instilling of racial pride is an integral part of the learning process!

Last month, the State Board of Education in Florida approved a new set of student achievement guidelines that sets lower standards for Black youth. Rather than closing the achievement gaps between students of different races, the guidelines simply accept them.

Oakland School District will allow the Dept. of Education to monitor their disciplinary procedures, to ensure that Black students are not receiving harsher punishments than their white peers. Black males were suspended at six times the rate of their white counterparts during the 2010-2011 academic year.

A recent educational study found that Black and Latino students often receive less critical, overly positive feedback from teachers. By not giving minority students the contstructive criticism they need and deserve, these teachers are stifling their intellectual growth.

A group of party-goers atop a frat house at Cornell University hurled beer cans and empty bottles of alcohol at a group of African American students, while taunting them with references to Trayvon Martin.

According to a new report from the Department of Education, Black students face harsher discipline in schools, as well as a variety of other serious disparities. Our Education system is ANYTHING BUT EQUAL. Read more at BlackYouthProject.com!

The New York Times ran a fascinating article on NYC’s flagship specialized public school Stuyvesant High School, and its dwindling number Black and Latino students. 3,295 students go to Stuyvesant; yet only 40 of them are Black. Should more be done to attract Black and Latino students to schools like Stuyvesant?

The principal of Germantown High School in Memphis, Tennessee is in hot water today after announcing to his students the results of standardized state test scores, breaking them down by race and socioeconomic status. The results made Black students appear “less smart” than their white counterparts. What do you think were the principals intentions? Could this ever be appropriate?

Around the same time period as the University’s initial cover-up of Sandusky’s alleged transgressions, Black Penn State students were receiving very aggressive hate mail that became DEATH THREATS, Culminating in the discovery of a Black man’s dead body near campus.Why was nothing done?! Read more at BlackYouthProject.com!