TeenSHARP recently announced a new program called The Proximity Project (TPP).
The Wilmington based nonprofit was founded over a decade ago to prepare talented, low-income, African American and Latino students to attend college.
TeenSHARP co-founder Atnre Alleyne says The Proximity Project builds on that mission by seeking to help education leaders and others make schools more inclusive.
“We’ve seen a lot of the inclination is to talk about diversity. Or let’s get a firm in here that can do a training on diversity; and that’s important, but what we wanted to say is – diversity by itself is not going to move the needle for students; it’s not going to make the racial progress that we need,” said Alleyne. “You really have to be proximate to students of color and to communities of color.”
You can read more at Delaware Public Media.
