School club's goal: Improving boys' grades, self-esteem
By Jodi Heckel
Sunday December 9, 2007
Robert K. O'Daniell
Dean Edwin Wilson leads a meeting of the Society of Gentlemen at Edison Middle School.
CHAMPAIGN – The 16 boys listened quietly as Edison Middle School Dean Edwin Wilson ticked off the reasons the odds were stacked against them.
Young black men like them were more likely to be turned off by education by the latter years of elementary school. That disconnect from academics leads to discipline problems.
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