Without the help of black men and other caring adults serving as their guides, beating the odds can seem quite insurmountable for young black males.
Archive for the “Education & Youth” Category
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Posted in: Education & Youth, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Campaign for Black Male Achievement, mentoring, Mentoring USA, Stephen Powell
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Tom Alexander's insistence on linking social justice with quality in education challenged and inspired us all.
Posted in: Education & Youth, Europe
Topics: education policy, Hugh McLean, Tom Alexander
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Black people in the United Kingdom are now 30 times more likely to be stopped than white people under exceptional stop and search powers granted by a 1994 law.
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A group of writers including Zadie Smith, Chimamanda Adiche, and Aleksander Hemon take a look at education systems in conflict-affected countries around the world.
Posted in: Asia, Education & Youth, Europe, Media & Arts
Topics: Aleksander Hemon, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Chimamanda Adiche, education reform, Guernica, Haiti, Hardeep Sing Kholi, Hugh McLean, India, Kamila Shamsie, Nathalie Handal, Nepal, Nick Laird, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Petina Guppah, Rachel Holmes, South Africa, Tahmima Anam, Zadie Smith, Zimbabwe, Zukisa Wanner
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Student Sergio Mabasso wants to take the agricultural skills he has honed at EARTH University back to his community in Mozambique so his neighbors can feed their families.
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The obstacles faced by black kids in America go far beyond studying hard and getting straight A's. Grantees of the Open Society Campaign for Black Male Achievement are working hard to address the root causes of inequality.
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Marie Santa Auguste, an EARTH University scholar from Haiti, talks about how a simple recycling tool can help feed her country while preventing deforestation.
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Local and national funders have helped transform Washington, D.C.’s juvenile justice agency by closing a notorious prison for court-involved youth and redirecting resources to community-based alternatives.
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Almost half of Pakistan’s population cannot read or write. But the recent Children’s Literature Festival in Lahore aimed to tackle this problem head-on.
Posted in: Asia, Education & Youth
Topics: Asad Baig, Children’s Literature Festival in Lahore, Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi, literacy, Pakistan
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I am happy to announce that Christopher Stone, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and an expert in criminal justice with extensive international experience, will take the helm as president of the Open Society Foundations in the second half of next year.
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