Category: Articles
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EAF’s Summer Institute Returns!
Reflecting on the dynamic three-day journey of our Eagle Summer Institute, we remain in awe of the commitment, wisdom, and spirited engagement that was shared by all attendees.
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2023 Eagle Academy Graduation
On behalf of the Eagle Academy Foundation, CONGRATULATIONS to our Principals, educators, school staff, parents, and caretakers across the Eagle Network.
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‘Merch Madness’: Fanatics donates hats, shirts to hundreds of Harlem students
HARLEM – Hundreds of students from the Frederick Douglass Academy were joined by students from the Eagle Academy for a last day of school unlike any other – a Merch Madness giveaways of hats, shirts and bags.
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When Life Hands You Lemons: 3 Brooklyn Teens on What it Takes to Graduate High School and Get into College
Across some urban areas of the United States, as many as 50% of Black males do not graduate from high school. An Ocean Hill public school is fixing this, one student at a time.
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HARLEM TEENS RECEIVE BUSINESS ADVICE FROM NICK CANNON, PLACE THIRD IN NATIONAL PITCH COMPETITION
Team reMind Me of Eagle Academy for Young Men of Harlem took 3rd place, with a $2,500 cash prize… Team reMind Me presented an iOS app designed to combat and address procrastination which is linked to mental health concerns.
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WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF COLLEGE — AND DOES IT HAVE ROOM FOR MEN?
“One of the things that we wanted to do is actually create a school and a culture where young men could feel safe, where young men can authentically just be themselves, be boys.” – Donald Ruff, Jr.
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WBC Cares about Eagle Academy
WBC Cares visited with Eagle Academy for Young Men of Harlem. Eagle Academy is the only school in NYC with a boxing program and now that youth are returning to class, they are going to start it again. It helps to have an activity like this to bring children back to School and keep them…
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If you really want to bridge the racial wealth gap, stop asking families of color to sacrifice so much to educate their children.
Brooklyn student Leslie Gomez Rivera used to avoid the Midwood High School cafeteria at all costs, spending her lunchtime in classrooms or the library and sometimes going the whole day without eating.
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David Banks, Educator and Adams Ally, Is Next N.Y.C. Schools Chancellor
Mr. Banks, who founded the Eagle Academy, a network of public schools for boys, is the first commissioner named to Mayor-elect Eric Adams’s administration.
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SECOND-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS NEED SUPPORT, TOO
If you really want to bridge the racial wealth gap, stop asking families of color to sacrifice so much to educate their children.