Category: Eagle in the News
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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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Philanthropist Robert F. Smith works to bolster financial literacy
Robert F. Smith tops the list of Black billionaires in America, but it’s his philanthropic work that’s grabbed the most headlines, including a commencement speech where he promised to pay off the student loans of the 2019 graduating class of Morehouse College. Now Smith’s latest gift is designed to teach young people how to handle…
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The Eagle Academy Foundation Announces Major Gift from Robert F. Smith, Powered by Goalsetter App Technology
The Eagle Academy Foundation Announces Major Gift from Robert F. Smith, Powered by Goalsetter App Technology Smith to donate stock shares in five portfolio companies to students, teachers, and staff members of Eagle Academy schools, in partnership with Goalsetter app technology. Read More New York, NY – October 25, 2021 – The Eagle Academy Foundation, a…
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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.
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De Blasio & Carranza look to upend the admissions process
David Banks weighs in on screening in the admissions process.