But one voice has been notably missing from the conversation: high school students of color. So says Amber Ravenell, the director of research for Teach Plus, a national organization that supports ...

“We are going to create a program that is specialized for young men of color ... male students graduate in four years, compared with 66 percent of their classmates. The high school ...

Gordon, now an elementary school principal in Memphis, can easily rattle off the names of the African-American male educators he had in middle and high school ... are men of color, Gordon said.

COLUMBIA — Some high school-aged boys in Richland County ... mentorships and internships for 10th- and 11th-grade male students of color. The grant from Colonial Life also will fund college ...