Minneapolis' Anti-Bias Efforts Focus on Black Males

Education Week: In a small conference room at a South Minneapolis school, the principal and assistant principal were trying to come up with ways to get a group of eight black boys to be more engaged in school.

The administrators said they were concerned that the 8th graders, whom they described as extremely "smart" and potential "leaders," were disconnected from their classrooms and did not think it was "cool" to be smart. The administrators wanted to figure out how to get the boys to harness their strengths in a positive way.

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