Cultural Issues in Comprehensive School Reform / Robert Cooper, Will J. Jordan -- Developing the Talents of African American Male Students During the Nonschool Hours / Olatokunbo S. Fashola -- The Trouble With Black Boys: The Role and Influence of Environmental and Cultural Factors on the Academic Performance of African American Males / Pedro A. Noguera -- Teachers? Perceptions and Expectations and the Black-White Test Score Gap / Ronald F. Ferguson -- Early Schooling and Academic Achievement of African American Males / James Earl Davis -- What?s Happening to the Boys? Early High School Experiences and School Outcomes Among African American Male Adolescents in Chicago / Melissa Roderick -- Black Males? Structural Conditions, Achievement Patters, Normative Needs, and ?Opportunities? / Dena Phillips Swanson, Michael Cunningham, Margaret Beale Spencer -- Athletics, Academics, and African American Males Jomills Henry Braddock II