My Brother’s Keeper? The Impact of Targeted Educational Supports

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dc.contributor.authorDee, Thomas S.en
dc.contributor.authorPenner, Emilyen
dc.date.accessed2019-10-29en
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-19T19:56:22Zen
dc.date.available2019-12-19T19:56:22Zen
dc.date.issued2019-10-01en
dc.description.abstractThe My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) Challenge developed by President Obama supports communities that promote civic initiatives designed to improve the educational and economic opportunities specifically for young men of color. In Oakland, California, the MBK educational initiative features the African American Male Achievement (AAMA) program. The AAMA focuses on regularly scheduled classes exclusively for Black, male students and taught by Black, male teachers who focus on social-emotional training, African-American history, culturally relevant pedagogy, and academic supports. In this study, the authors present quasi-experimental evidence on the dropout effects of the AAMA by leveraging its staggered scale-up across high schools in the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD). They find that AAMA availability led to a significant reduction in the number of Black males who dropped out as well as smaller reductions among Black females, particularly in 9th grade.en
dc.description.sponsorshipAnnenberg Institute at Brown Universityen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://www.edworkingpapers.com/ai19-145en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/96069en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAnnenberg Institute at Brown Universityen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEdWorkingPaper; 19-145en
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjecteducation, higher--government policyen
dc.subjecteducational attainmenten
dc.subjectacademic achievement gapen
dc.titleMy Brother’s Keeper? The Impact of Targeted Educational Supportsen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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