Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis - My Brother's Keeper Led to a Significant Reduction in DropOuts!

A 2019
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report finds that the AAMA program, part of President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper’s initiative, led to a significant reduction in the number of Black males who dropped out of high school. Check it out! https://stanford.io/2O2SKm0

My Brother’s Keeper? The Impact of Targeted Educational Supports
Author/s: Thomas S. Dee , Emily Penner
Year of Publication: 2019
The My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) Challenge developed by President Obama supports communities that promote civic initiatives designed to improve the educational and economic opportunities specifically for young men of color. In Oakland, California, the MBK educational initiative features the African American Male Achievement (AAMA) program. The AAMA focuses on regularly scheduled classes exclusively for Black, male students and taught by Black, male teachers who focus on social-emotional training, African-American history, culturally relevant pedagogy, and academic supports. In this study, we present quasi-experimental evidence on the dropout effects of the AAMA by leveraging its staggered scale-up across high schools in the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD). We find that AAMA availability led to a significant reduction in the number of Black males who dropped out as well as smaller reductions among Black females, particularly in 9th grade.

Poverty and Inequality Topic Area
Topic Areas:
Societal Context, Student Success
APA Citation
Dee, T.S., & Penner, E. (2019). My Brother’s Keeper? The Impact of Targeted Educational Supports.
Media Mentions
October 28, 2019. The Hechinger Report. Some evidence for the importance of teaching black culture to black students
October 21, 2019. Stanford Report. Access to black male achievement program lowered student dropout rates, Stanford-led study finds

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