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SirGENTZ INC. is collaborating with Reviews.com to raise awareness around the barriers that hinder students from pursuing their college education!
Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.
- Ron Lewis
54% of African Americans graduate from high school, compared to more than three quarters of white and Asian students.
Nationally, African American male students in grades K-12 were nearly 2½ times as likely to be suspended from school in 2000 as white students.
In 2007, nearly 6.2 million young people were high school dropouts. Every student who does not complete high school costs our society an estimated $260,000 in lost earnings, taxes, and productivity.
On average, African American twelfth-grade students read at the same level as white eighth-grade students.
The twelfth-grade reading scores of African American males were significantly lower than those for men and women across every other racial and ethnic group.
Only 14% of African American eighth graders score at or above the proficient level. These results reveal that millions of young people cannot understand or evaluate text, provide relevant details, or support inferences about the written documents they read.
– The majority of the 2.3 million people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails are people of color, people with mental health issues and drug addiction, people with low levels of educational attainment, and people with a history of unemployment or underemployment.
Resource: Tavis Smiley Reports
Nationally, African American male students in grades K-12 were nearly 2½ times as likely to be suspended from school in 2000 as white students.
In 2007, nearly 6.2 million young people were high school dropouts. Every student who does not complete high school costs our society an estimated $260,000 in lost earnings, taxes, and productivity.
On average, African American twelfth-grade students read at the same level as white eighth-grade students.
The twelfth-grade reading scores of African American males were significantly lower than those for men and women across every other racial and ethnic group.
Only 14% of African American eighth graders score at or above the proficient level. These results reveal that millions of young people cannot understand or evaluate text, provide relevant details, or support inferences about the written documents they read.
– The majority of the 2.3 million people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails are people of color, people with mental health issues and drug addiction, people with low levels of educational attainment, and people with a history of unemployment or underemployment.
Resource: Tavis Smiley Reports
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There are people out there that want our young gentlemen to go to school to receive the experience and training needed to succeed.