PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT


ACADEMIC SUCCESS AMONG AFRICAN-AMERICAN YOUTH

	A community forum, "Educating African American Youth:  A Place
for Solutions," will be held at the Walker Upper Elementary School on
Dairy Road at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16.
Keynote speaker Brenda Townsend, associate professor of education at
the University of South Florida, will lead the discussion. Other
panelists include James M. Patton, associate dean of education at the
College of William and Mary; Harold J. Burbach, chairman of U.Va.'s
department of educational leadership and policy studies; Cynthia
Stratton, director of the Barrett Day Care Center; Edith Wheeler,
teacher at Venable Elementary School, and Greer D. Wilson, a private
consultant, will participate.

	Educators and parents will explore solutions to the lack of
academic success in the classroom among many African-American youths.
The free two-hour discussion is sponsored by U.Va.'s Curry School of
Education, U.Va.'s Office of African-American Affairs,
Charlottesville's NAACP and the African-American Summit Committee.

	The event is a part of the month-long African-American History
Month celebration at U.Va. 
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February 11, 1997

START DATE:  Immediate
KILL DATE:      Feb. 17, 1997