October 10, 2008
Colleges Seek Key to Success of Black Men in Classroom
As a 21-year-old black man with lofty educational plans, Clifford M. Bridges is accustomed to straddling different worlds.
Back in Raleigh, N.C., where he grew up, he attended a public high school with a predominantly black enrollment. But he spent most of his days off in a separate building that housed honors-level classes, where nearly all of his fellow students were white.
About half of his black friends in high school were serious about getting into college, he recalls, but
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