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Monday, January 27, 2014

In America, only 10% of 8th-grade Black boys can read proficiently* - Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública

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In America, only 10% of 8th-grade Black boys can read proficiently*
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"If you teach that nigger how to read, there will be no keeping him! It will forever unfit him to be a slave! He would at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master."
These are the words of Master Auld to his wife, who was teaching Frederick Douglass, a slave, to read. This passage is taken from an essay written by Jada Williams, 13, Rochester, New York. 



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2011 Reading Levels of 8th-Grade 
Black Males from the Lowest-Performing 
Large American School Districts* 

City\Percentage of 8th-Grade Black Males Proficient in Reading* 
Milwaukee - 3%
Cleveland - 3%
Detroit - 5%
Washington (D.C.) - 6%
San Diego - 7%
Dallas - 7%
Baltimore City - 7%
Chicago - 9%
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