Former New Orleans Saints Linebacker Boosts Graduation Rate For Oregon District’s Black Students
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Dwight Roberson initially went to Oregon to play football, but he is now being credited by the Salem-Keizer School District, and administrators for the highest graduation rate of Black students in at least a decade.
“If I’m driving and I see one of my students walking, they definitely get picked up and taken to school,” he told the Salem Reporter.
If he notices a student missing classes, the former New Orleans Saints linebacker may pay them a visit at home to connect with them one on one.
According to reports, 40 percent of Salem-Keizer students are Latino, just shy of 50 percent are white, and only 1 percent are Black.
Roberson focuses most of his attention on McKay High School and North High, which have the most Black students attending either schools in the entire district.
“When students of color have teachers of color, in addition, both students of color and white students report having positive perceptions of their teachers of color, including feeling cared for and academically challenged,” Desiree Carver-Thomas, a researcher at the Learning Policy Institute, said.
High school graduation is just around the corner and both Roberson and the Salem-Keizer School District hope to keep making progress for years to come.
Former New Orleans Saints Linebacker Boosts Graduation Rate For Oregon District’s Black Students was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
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