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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED342829 AUTHOR:
TITLE: Educating African American Males: A Dream Deferred.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1990
NOTE: 66 p.; Prepared by the African American Male Task
Force.
ABSTRACT: This document presents recommendations of the
Milwaukee (Wisconsin) African American Male Task Force
(MAAMTF), which reviewed from January through April of 1990
current educational efforts and recommended strategies by
which schools could better address African American males'
needs. The MAAMTF recommendations are to be implemented in
two phases. Phase I focuses on district policy, staff
development, and structural variation based on the notion
that all students can learn at increasingly higher levels.
The following are Phase I recommendations: (1)
multicultural curricula; (2) flexible structuring for
academic areas; (3) quality after-school, summer, and
Saturday programs; (4) enhanced homework policies; (5)
staff training and assistance for working with diverse
populations; (6) increasing the number of African American
teachers, especially males; (7) parent involvement; (8)
inservice courses for all staff members on African American
history and culture and racism in America; (9) designation
of some schools as professional development centers; (10)
gender socialization courses; and (11) African American
male immersion academies. Phase II recommendations focus on
long range goals for system-wide revisions in terms of
restructuring schools, developing strong self-concepts
among African American boys, developing alternate
discipline programs, revising curriculum, providing family
support, involving the community, and allocating resources.
Included are 9 graphs, 1 table, and 71 references.
Appendices contain correlates of effective schooling,
proposed time lines, a budgetary data table, seven other
data tables, and outlines of student non-discrimination and
affirmative action policies. (JB)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Black-Education; Black-Youth; Community
Support; Educational-Change; Educational-Policy; Elementary
Secondary-Education; Inner-City; Multicultural-Education;
Parent-Participation; Sexual-Identity; Staff-Development;
Urban-Schools
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Black-Students; *Educational-Improvement;
*Males-; *School-Districts; *Urban-Youth
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