Phoenix’s Youth Reconnect With Their Futures
From our partners at Arizona PBS:
A report in 2010 found that Phoenix led the nation in cities with “disconnected youth;” individuals ages 16 to 24 who were not in school and not working.
Since then, different organizations have risen to the challenge to reconnect the city’s 100,000 youth with a path to success. Thanks to groups like Youth Build, the number of disconnected youth has dropped 27 percent.
The untold story of Black Americans in pursuit of higher education in the North when Southern graduate schools were white-only.
This selection of features and shorts illuminates critical formations of schooling and learning from various global perspectives.
%%excerpt%% Black Americans today remain at the center of conversations around how to expand access to the American Dream and are looking for solutions to new challenges in education.