"Even now, three years later, male underperformance is still a trend nationwide and in California. At the high school level, male dropout rates are higher than those of their female counterparts. Girls make up 54% of L.A. Unified graduates compared to 42% of boys. This achievement gap continues into the university level: California women earned 10% more college degrees than men in 2012, according to the California Post-Secondary Education Commission. In response, Menjivar founded URBAN TxT, a nonprofit organization to help male teens from South L.A. develop leadership and technology skills. He employed a team of five to staff a 15-week summer academy where the boys learn computer programming and web development. Students are divided into teams that compete against each other to create the best website by the end of the summer."
Posted on: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 10:07:24 +0000
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