homework 51 "paper "

Bryanna Wright 4-26-10
11-D4

School is a place that has been around for many of years. Teaching us how to read and write, as well as teaching us math, science, history and english. But in my 11 years of going to school I never learned why African American’s never really graduate from high school compare to Caucasians. And why that is mostly African American boys are the ones that really don’t graduate were as African American girls are but still are not at much as Caucasians. Why is that most of African Americans boys want to always be a rapper or and basketball player? Being an African American I decided to researchand find out why.
From reading the article “AFRICAN AMERICANS AND EDUCATION” almost all of African Americans are more likely to attend high-poverty schools that is, public where more than 75 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch1 and are less likely to graduate from high
school and attend college at rates lower than any other racial group. In 2006-07 16 percent (7.7 million) of all elementary and secondary public school students went to a high-poverty school. A total of 33 precent of African Africans went to high-proverty shcool where as 4 percent of Caucasian kids. In the city 10 percent of Caucasian kids went to high-poverty school where as 46 percent of African Africans kids. And the drop out rates are kind of the same, in one year 6.9 of Caucasian drop out and 13.1 of African Americans drop out. Out of all the racial groups, African Americans are most likely to go to a school that does not have AP classses. There is 19 percent of African American students attending these kind of schools schools, compared to only 6 percent of Asian, 12 percent of Latino, and 15 percent of Caucasian students.
In 2005-06 less than half of all African American male students received diplomas. The rate at which African American males are dropping out and being placed in special education was far more outstanding then the rate at which they are graduating and reaching high levels of academic achievement. For that year the graduation rate was 47 percent. New York has three of the 10 districts that have the lowest graduation rates for African American males. Compared to New Jersey and Arizona where ther graduation rates for their malethat are African American close to, or higher than, the national average graduation rate for Caucasian, Latino male students. If you go the this website (http://www.naacp.org/advocacy/education/African_Americans_and_Education_092809.pdf) you can see the “State-by-State Graduation Rates for African American Male Students. Race and family income is a high reason on whether a student immediately enrolls in college. College enrollment rate for 2007 was 70 percent for white high school graduates and 61 percent for Latino high school graduates, compared with 56 percent for African American high school graduates.

I also read “Hispanic And Black High School Graduation Rates Very Low” February 26, 2004 more then half of Black, Hispanic and Native American young teens are being held back before graduation. According to reports , “while 75 percent of white students graduated from high school in 2001, only 50 percent of all Black students, 51 percent of Native American students, and 53 percent of all Hispanic students got a high school diploma in the same year. The study found that the problem was even worse for Black, Native American, and Hispanic young men at 43 percent, 47 percent, and 48 percent, respectively.” As you can see African Americans has the lowest number and from the othe articles I have read it is not just in one case. They have the lowest rate year after year after year. And there is nothing that seems to be done, African Americans and mosly boys are falling through the crack that can be stopped be will take so time. Because of them not finishing school or graduate late African American boys want to take the easy way out and become a rapper or a baketball player. If we could come together and find a way to get African American the chance to take AP classes and the chance to go to college and the chance to see that there are alot of things out there from them to do then we could raise the rate so that more grauate instead of more dropping out.