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The Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color (COSEBOC) in partnership with the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education
has developed the Standards and Promising Practices for Schools Educating Boys of Color Tool as a mechanism and set of guidelines that
we hope will assist school districts and educational leaders that seek to develop and enhance schools and programs serving boys of color.
COSEBOC, was founded in 2007 to serve as think tank and network for school leaders and educators from around the country that are
concerned about the education of boys of color. Since the founding of COSBEC, the Metro Center at NYU has served as a partner and
collaborator focused on conducting research that will further the mission of finding solutions to the challenges confronting boys of color.
The advent of single-sex schools is not a new innovation; however, its prevalence as a strategy for educating boys of color has grown exponentially over the past 10 years. Unlike single-sex schools for girls, whose premise is to provide girls equitable access and opportunity while expanding notions of femininity and gender roles and expectations, single-sex schools for boys, especially boys of color do not have a well-articulated theory for this intervention. Our research sought to develop a theoretical basis for characterizing this intervention as it relates to Black and Latino boys. This brief provides an initial landscape of how practitioners of single-sex schools for boys of color theorize their intervention and the basis for their theory.
This tool is based upon a set of assumptions about the problems experienced by boys of color. Our research and review of the relevant scholarly literature has led us to conclude that there is
nothing inherently wrong with boys of color despite the preponderance of evidence that many
face hardships both within and outside of school. Rather, the problems confronting many boys of
color are a byproduct of the social, economic, political, and educational forces that operate within
American society. Specifically within schools, we have found that it is the interaction of policies,
practices and beliefs that creates conditions for poor educational outcomes and problematic social
behavior to become normalized.
However, there is also good news...more
LYNN, MA: The Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color (COSEBOC) and the Metropolitan Center for
Urban Education have released a new document to assist educators in developing and enhancing schools and
programs serving boys of color. “Most indicators of academic achievement and social outcomes for Black and Latino male students suggest
that these students face severe hardships,” says Ron Walker, Executive Director of COSEBOC. “On every
indicator associated with success males of color are underrepresented, while on most indicators associated
with failure and distress they are overrepresented.”
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