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Black Males Still Lag in Graduation, Report Says

Posted August 7th, 2008 by Mike Steigerwald

By Christina A. Samuels, Education Week

The Schott Foundation for Public Education, which tracks the educational progress of black boys, plans to step up its efforts to see that graduation-rate gaps are closed.

John H. Jackson, the head of the Cambridge, Mass.-based foundation, said last month that the organization was issuing a challenge to school districts to promote a 50 percent increase in the graduation rate of black males in the next five years.

"If there isn’t a timetable, the plans can go in perpetuity," said Mr. Jackson, who became the president and chief executive officer of the foundation in July 2007.

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