National Alliance of Black School Educators

The NABSE is dedicated to improving both the educational experiences and accomplishments of African American youth through the development and use of instructional and motivational methods that increase levels of inspiration, attendance and overall achievement.

The NABSE promotes programs that deal with professional development, information-sharing on strategies that will help to motivate African American youth and increase their academic performances, and policy advocacy.

They are also working to create a forum for the exchange of ideas and strategies to improve opportunities for African American educators and students.

Representing the Metropolitan Applied Research Center (MARC), the organization that helped to fund the early meetings, were Hylan Lewis, Director of the Fellowship Program and Dixie Moon, Executive Administrator.

The New Rochelle affiliate recently used Black History Month as a platform to create poetry, dance, songs and visual art to share their thoughts and ideas about the life, work and legacy of Dr. Maya Angelou.

The donation was part of an annual program by NABSE and Promethean to close the achievement gap by modernizing classrooms and boosting parental engagement.

[3] NABSE tested this hypothesis by comparing the rates that Black children who were classified as having "objective" medical disabilities as opposed to "subjective" psychological or intellectual problems.

She argues that, because so many Black children are born into poverty, they experience high rates of low-weight births, homelessness and psychological trauma that would logically cause emotional and intellectual difficulties.

Children usually wind up in foster care because their parents were abusive, neglectful, criminal or addicted, and 29 percent is close to the percentage in special education labeled "emotionally disturbed."