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PRAISE academy
Paul Robeson The Paul Robeson Academic International School of Excellence (PRAISE ) is a partnership between the Urban Leadership Institute, University of Baltimore, and the South East Youth Academy. With start up funding from The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Urban Leadership Institute has opened the PRAISE Academy on the campus of University of Baltimore in Baltimore, Maryland.
 
Paul Robeson biography
Paul Robeson's biography Paul Robeson was perhaps the best known and most widely respected black American of the 1930s and 1940s. Robeson was also a staunch supporter of the Soviet Union, and a man, later in his life, widely vilified and censored for his frankness and unyielding views on issues to which public opinion ran contrary.
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PRAISE registration
Register for the PRAISE academy Urban Leadership Institute reaffirms its policy of equal opportunity in education regardless of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, or disability in accordance with Academy’s policy and applicable federal and state statutes and regulations.
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PRAISE develops and nurtures excellence in adolescent African American males academically and socially. The PRAISE model provides parents with an intense alternative educational environment designed to improve academic performance as well as enhance social and emotional development. PRAISE is comprehensive in that it takes a "wholistic" approach to the empowerment and transformation of adolescent African American males by addressing multiple aspects of their lives.

PRAISE model addresses the systemic challenges that affect African American males through a yearlong Saturday enrichment process for (30) middle school boys ages 11-14. The model features a full Saturday of academic remediation, language immersion, and social & emotional learning modules.

Orientations and interviews are mandatory for families interested in enrolling a boy in the program. Students will be selected based on the following criteria:
• Parent & child interview (parent must agree in writing to completing the Parent Leadership Academy)
• Completion of PRAISE Application
• Previous academic performance (last record is needed)

The following is a breakdown of the PRAISE model:
• Special 4 week intense summer experience (orientation to the PRAISE model)
• Year long Saturday school (3 Saturday's each month)
• Year long curriculum which features (academic remediation- writing & math, Spanish courses (emphasis on living in a bilingual society, Tai Chi, Yoga, Arts & Crafts, History and Black male survival skills (Dare To Be King).
• Mandatory monthly "Parent Leadership Academy"

The PRAISE is free and open to families who reside in Baltimore, Maryland.
For more information on the PRAISE academy please visit www.paulrobesonacademy.org or contact us at 877.339.4300.
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