Charter school gets all its seniors into college by 2025 Campaign   3-07-2010 4:14 (EST)The entire senior class at Chicago's only public all-male, all-African-American high school has been accepted to four-year colleges. At last count, the 107 seniors had earned spots at 72 schools across the nation.

Mayor Richard Daley and Chicago Public Schools chief Ron Huberman surprised students at an all-school assembly at Urban Prep Academy for Young Men in Englewood this morning to congratulate them. It's the first graduating class at Urban Prep since it opened its doors in 2006.

Huberman applauded the seniors for making CPS shine.

Interactive U.S. Data Map Revealing Racial Dispari by Shadi Rahimi   3-03-2010 9:45 (EST)The San Francisco-based national nonprofit W. Haywood Burns Institute (BI) is announcing the availability of the first-ever "Racial and Ethnic Disparities Juvenile Justice Data Map" on its website, http://www.burnsinstitute.org.

A Failing Approach in Juvenile Justice by David Muhammad   3-03-2010 9:44 (EST)For far too long an ineffective and expensive strategy has been utilized to try to address juvenile crime – irresponsible massive incarceration.

Incarcerating large numbers of youth – especially non-violent offenders has been a costly, unsuccessful approach that has yet to change – even with experts around the country acknowledging its failure and local and state budgets reeling.

Ring Leader by Pendarvis Harshaw   3-03-2010 9:43 (EST)She looked dead in the camera and asked: "if these guys are going around the country talking about manhood...why aren't any of them married?"

Make a Socially Responsible Investment in Young Bl by Cedric Brown   3-03-2010 9:41 (EST)In 2004, the Mitchell Kapor Foundation began noticing a disturbing trend in the San Francisco Bay Area. Black male applicants were visibly absent from the selection pool for the educational programs run by our sister organization, the Level Playing Field Institute. At the same time, we were dismayed by the news of several shootings of young black men, among them a college-bound high school senior.

A Snapshot of African Americans in Higher Educatio by 2025 Campaign   3-03-2010 9:40 (EST)Today African-Americans students are still challenged by the historical vestiges of discrimination as well as the barriers associated with financial and other factors. The nearly 40 million African Americans residing in the United States—representing approximately 13 percent of the total population—are three times more likely (24 percent) to live in poverty than Whites (8 percent). Further, opportunity gaps related to college enrollment and completion persist for African-American students with only 11 percent being enrolled in postsecondary education.