Urban Youth in Partnership with Knight Foundation, Starfish Media and United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey will Launch the Urban Youth E-Mentoring Guide and Soledad O’Brien will Screen Black In America 6 Documentary and Moderate Discussion
[dropcap]J[/dropcap]oin Journalist and Producer, Soledad O’Brien, to view her latest documentary from the front lines of the education achievement gap in “Great Expectations,” the latest edition of the award-winning franchise, “Black in America.”
The documentary explores why so many black children are failing in reading and math at dramatic levels, compared to their white counterparts.
Thursday October 17, 2013, 6 PM at the School Of The Future, 4021 Parkside Ave. Philadelphia PA
THE EVENT IS FREE BUT YOU MUST EMAIL RSVP TO events@uwgpsnj.org
“RSVP for Black in America 6 Film Screening” On subject Line! SEATING IS LIMITED
After the screening Soledad O’Brien will hold a discussion with the following panelist Anthony Martin, Founder Urban Youth; Ron Walker, Executive Director, COSEBOC; Donyall Dickey, Asst Superintendent School District Philadelphia; Dr. Doreen Loury, Executive Director of the Black Male Development Symposium & Asst Professor of Sociology at Arcadia Univ. and Dr. Rueben Mills, CEO of New Media Charter School
