Am I My Brother's Keeper?

Am I My Brother's Keeper? offers powerful insights into the challenges of implementing large-scale educational change. The book, chronicling the Expanded Success Initiative--a four-year study focused on improving the educational outcomes of fifteen thousand Black and Latinx males in New York City public high schools--covers what worked, what didn't, and what we can learn from the experience. Through the voices of students, teachers, and administrators, the book informs the implementation of other large-scale district-community partnerships designed to improve opportunities and outcomes for young people who have systematically been denied both. Most critically, the book provides policy, practice, and research recommendations to inform the next generation of work about this student population. Adriana Villavicencio highlights concrete steps that school districts can take to confront racist structures and support young people of color. "In this important new book, Adriana Villavicencio presents a detailed analysis of an educational initiative designed to improve academic outcomes for young men of color in New York. Through careful examination of the work carried out at the schools where these interventions took place, she shows us how progress was achieved and how obstacles were addressed. Given how many schools across America are grappling with similar challenges, this book will be an eye-opener and potentially a guide on how to improve academic and developmental outcomes for young men of color elsewhere." --Pedro A. Noguera, dean, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California Adriana Villavicencio is an assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine. David E. Kirkland is the executive director of the Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools at New York University.