{"id":563,"date":"2017-07-13T17:42:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T17:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/?p=563"},"modified":"2017-07-13T17:42:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T17:42:42","slug":"louisville-tries-different-course-close-black-male-achievement-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2017\/07\/13\/louisville-tries-different-course-close-black-male-achievement-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisville Tries Different Course to Close Black Male Achievement Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to improve academic achievement among African Americans, a Kentucky school board has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdrb.com\/story\/35764489\/jcps-board-votes-to-approve-males-of-color-academy\">approved<\/a>\u00a0the creation of an academy tailored to Black male students in Louisville.<\/p>\n<p>The Jefferson County board voted 6-1 to create the Academy that will be housed in the county. Jefferson County is the largest district within the state and has around 100,000 students of which roughly 17,500 are African American, according to the U.S. Census.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diverseeducation.com\/article\/98853\/\">Read the entire post here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to improve academic achievement among African Americans, a Kentucky school board has\u00a0approved\u00a0the creation of an academy tailored to Black male students in Louisville. The Jefferson County board voted 6-1 to create the Academy that will be housed in the county. Jefferson County is the largest district within the state and has around&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2017\/07\/13\/louisville-tries-different-course-close-black-male-achievement-gap\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}