Accelerating Results for Black Males: Ensuring Black Males Are Succesful Early Readers

A follow-up to Accelerating Results for Black Males: A Resource Guide for Promise Neighborhoods, this guide features successful practices and programs that place black boys in the first eight years of their lives on a path to educational achievement.

• Quality interactions with parents, teachers, and care providers, good health and nutrition, and supportive learning environments enrich the brain, promote healthy development, and expose children to a wealth of words and experiences that form the basis for their early reading success. Tweet
• Step 1: Ensure a healthy start by coordinating health, family, and educational supports for new and expecting mothers. Tweet
• Step 2: Empower families to support early learning through interactive, family-focused learning opportunities at home, in parenting classes, and in early care and education programs. Tweet
• Step 3: Promote black male involvement -- from fathers and others in the community. Tweet
• Step 4: Expand access and reduce barriers to early learning opportunities. Tweet
• Step 5: Improve quality and promote equity in early learning programs. Tweet
• Step 6: Provide high-quality after-school and summer learning opportunities. Tweet