Dallas All-Boys School Lets Young Men Shine
New academy based on similar program for girls
August 16, 2011
The Barack Obama Leadership Academy in Texas will be an all-boys school when classes resume later this month.
Most publicly-supported schools in the United States are co-ed, but there are some exceptions. In Dallas, Texas, an all-girls school, which opened in 2004, has consistently graduated stellar students.
Now, the district hopes its new all-boys school - the Barack Obama Leadership Academy - will do the same for boys when the school year resumes later this month.
Nakia Douglas, principal of the academy, has been giving many tours of the new school to incoming students and their parents.
Douglas was appointed, in part, because he used to be the kind of student this school wants.
Boys only need apply
“I was born and raised in south Dallas by a single parent," he says. "I was that child that I would work if I knew the teacher believed in me. But at the same time, I had a hunger and desire for more. A lot of our young men have that hunger and desire and ability now.”
Nakia Douglas, principal of the Barack Obama Leadership Academy, a new all-boys school in Dallas, Texas.
Research by the U.S. Department of Education shows boys get worse grades and drop out more than girls. Studies have also found that boys mature more slowly than girls, and learn in different ways.
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