Category: Media
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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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Syracuse grad’s powerful commencement speech goes viral
When Jordan Pierre was selected by his teachers and peers at Syracuse University to address his fellow graduates during the commencement, he took the opportunity to speak from the heart.
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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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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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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…