Too few black men are earning college degrees


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Can Texas turn that around?

The numbers are staggeringly low: Only one college in Texas graduated more than 100 African-American men in 2016.

It's a grim statistic that punctuates glaring disparities across their educational journey.

Black males are more likely to get disciplined more harshly than their peers even as early as prekindergarten. They're less likely to get tapped for talented and gifted programs that put them on track for college readiness and more likely to be placed in special education classes.

These inequities put them further behind than their peers, making it harder to earn a degree.

In 2016, Prairie View A&M University graduated 168 black men within six years of their start as freshmen, according to the most recent federal data available.

The numbers drop off quickly. At Texas A&M University, which was among the top schools graduating such students, 83 black men earned their bachelor's in that time period compared to 2,271 white men and 523 Hispanic men at that College Station campus.
Experts say the low numbers represent a convergence of the many challenges the young men face in education, including low expectations, a lack of black educators, limited opportunities and inadequate preparation in high schools.

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I have believed for some time now that the the 6 year stat is used to paint negative pictures because it never has been adjusted to tell the whole truth. For example, transfer students are not counted although they enroll and graduate.

Other examples, students that have to withdraw for personal and finacial reasons, but later re-enroll are not counted even if they go on to graduate.

Also, any part time student, even a student that has never withdrawn, but takes beyond the 6 year threshold to finish is not counted.

With all that said, what I just typed is well known by those that like to paint bad portraits of black folks, but it serves their interest to ignore the rest of the narrative.
 
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This is as misleading as the trumpian stats that black males commity "a lot" of crime. Even with over policing, black males are sentenced longer or more harshly for the same crime or shoddy police work for no crime but association or petty crime. However by and large black men and women are now and always have been... Law abiding by a huge majority. This type of journalism is trash.
 
Graduation rates are low mainly due to financial reasons .... root cause racism and Jim Crow.

Also it doesn't take into consideration blacks that started at community colleges or transferred. This story is misleading but it doesn't change the fact that black men are behind.
 
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