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 ninth grade.

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我兄弟的守护者？有针对性的教育支持的影响

奥巴马总统发起的 My Brother's Keeper (MBK) 挑战赛支持那些促进旨在改善有色人种年轻人的教育和经济机会的公民倡议的社区。在加利福尼亚州的奥克兰，MBK 教育计划以非洲裔美国男性成就 (AAMA) 计划为特色。AAMA 专注于专门为黑人男性学生安排的定期课程，由黑人男性教师教授，他们专注于社会情感训练、非裔美国人历史、文化相关的教学法和学术支持。在这项研究中，我们通过利用其在奥克兰联合学区 (OUSD) 高中的交错扩大规模，提供了关于 AAMA 辍学效应的准实验证据。