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Minority youth, especially African Americans, continue to be defined by statistics that reveal members of this student population are facing academic challenges, and, unfortunately, making limited progress within the US education system. When conducting research for this book, two major themes continued to emerge among articles, reports, and studies. The theme showed that the findings of most of the scholars began and concluded with negative, dismal statistics. According to Stillwater and Sable (2013), blacks have the lowest high school graduation rate at 66.1% compared to their peers from other racial/ethnic groups. On average, African American twelfth-grade students read at the same level as white eighth grade students.
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Baxley, T.P., Boston, G.H. (2014). From Silenced to Voice. In: (In)visible Presence. Transgressions, vol 102. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-689-9_3
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