Research Scholars Take Aim at Improving Black Achievement
by Jamal Watson
Dr. Jerlando Jackson (right), Professor of Higher Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of Wisconsin’s Equity & Inclusion Laboratory, talks with Kimberly Worthy, the 2009 Teacher of the Year for Washington D.C., on the opening day of the second annual International Colloquium on Black Males in Education. (Photo by Clifford White)
ST. THOMAS, VI — Some of the nation’s most prominent research scholars are gathering this week in St. Thomas to strategize solutions and share best practices on how to improve Black male achievement.
For the second year in a row, the three-day international colloquium has brought together researchers from various academic disciplines who are engaged in cutting-edge scholarship that focuses squarely on how to address what has become one of the nation’s most vexing problems.
“This has always been our vision,” says Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson, the Vilas Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the director of the Wisconsin Equity and Inclusion Laboratory—a research center that is dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research on topics of equity and inclusion in education, with a particular focus on higher education.
The idea for a colloquium, he says, came in 2009 when he and Dr. James L. Moore, III, the College of Education and Human Ecology Distinguished Professor of Urban Education at Ohio State University (OSU)
