Unfortunately, in what concerns the educational system, black boys do not receive the support needed and they are constantly punished instead of being showed a better alternative of living and learning. Our educational system should focus on providing every child with an equal education, irrespective of his cultural background.

If parents would be more concerned with their children education and if our schools would focus more on rehabilitating a troubled child than punishing him, perhaps black boys would have a better life and higher chances of success.

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Lee, Courtland C., Empowering Young Black Males, ERIC Clearinghouse on Counselling and Personnel Services Ann Arbor MI, December 1991, available at http://www.ericdigests.org/1992-4/black.htm;

McNally, Joel, a Ghetto Within a Ghetto, Spring 2003, available at http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/17_03/ghet173.shtml;

Noguera, Pedro Antonio, "Closing the Racial Achievement Gap: The Best Strategies of the Schools We Send Them to," in Motion Magazine, July 23, 2007;

Noguera, Pedro Antonio, "The...
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