The Education Report Oakland honors high-achieving black students

The Education Report

Oakland honors high-achieving black students

By Katy Murphy
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010 at 3:24 pm in achievement gap, high schools, middle schools, students
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photos courtesy of the Oakland Unified School District

Each year, African American students drop out of Oakland’s public schools with disturbing predictability, a phenomenon that Superintendent Tony Smith has decried in his speeches and vowed to “interrupt.”

An annual event held at an East Oakland church calls our attention to those who are thriving despite a dropout crisis in which more than one-third of the city’s black high school students quit early.

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