10 African-American Innovators of Education
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MadameNoire
Jabali Sawicki
Jabali Sawicki, the former kid with the boombox, is now the founding principal of Excellence Boys Charter School. Excellence Boys is the first all-boys charter school in Brooklyn’s Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood. It was developed to combat low graduation and high dropout rates among low-income African American boys. He has called the education of lower income boys “the new civil rights movement.” The 27-year-old former Boston science teacher, also founded a competitive soccer program. He has a dual degree in Biology and Philosophy from Oberlin College and a Master’s Degree in Educational Administration from Columbia University.
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