tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856792.post-1125831852710785492005-09-04T07:02:00.000-04:002005-09-04T07:08:44.490-04:00Chicago-based group, the <a href="http://www.blackstarproject.org/wp/">Black Star Project</a>, has organized back-to-school events in 79 communities, encouraging fathers to get involved in their children's education. Nonprofit offers multiple programs for parents and educators, designed to improve achievement for low-income and minority students.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2005/08/31/01million.h25.html">Education Week</a> reports: "The event is taking different forms in different places. In Kansas City, Mo., a radio station has offered to drive fathers and their children to school in limousines. In one Illinois town, the mayor planned to greet men as they brought their children to school. One Hawaii town organized an effort to get men in prison to write to friends and relatives and ask them to take their children to school in their stead.<br /><br />"Here in Prince George’s County, Md., a predominantly African-American, largely middle-class community east of Washington, civic leaders asked parents to bring their children to school on the first day. They dubbed the event “Embracing Our Village,” in an attempt to revitalize the sense of communal responsibility for children in the oft-cited African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child.'"Adam Kernan-Schlossnoreply@blogger.com