Blacks in Computer Science: The Secrets of their Success
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Aggressive Action Urged Against Dropout Crisis Among L.A.'s Black Students
It will take a full-blown partnership of students, parents, teachers, business leaders, civic and faith-based groups to tackle what’s being called a crisis in the dropout rates among African-American high school students.
That’s the uphill task facing the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second largest school district, which last month released a bombshell study that came up with a newly-improved method for calculating the numbers of students leaving school without getting their high school diplomas.
Michael Batie, a technology entrepreneur, scientist and middle school mathematics teacher at View Park Prep Charter School, has made it his mission to highlight the problem — especially as it pertains to what he sees as woeful underachievement in math and the science among African-Americans and other students of color.