CUBE 45th Annual Conference

Dates: October 4-6, 2012
Location: Loews Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta, GA
Topic: Public Education - Our Responsibility to Young Men of Color

The fastest growing populations in the country are those minority groups with the lowest levels of male educational attainment. 

If present levels of education and current population trends continue, the United States will see a decline in the educational attainment of the country as a whole. The goal of ensuring the future global competitiveness of the U.S. cannot be met without the full participation of our nation’s young men of color. But at least as important as the macroeconomic implications of this tragedy is the fact that individual potential is lost, hope is lost, and students begin an unnecessary downward psychological and socioeconomic trajectory. 

The 45th Annual Conference of the Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) examined the causes of this discrepancy in educational attainment, and explored policies and practices for successfully educating young men of color.