The dropout rate for Philadelphia’s black and Latino males has reached devastating proportions. Fifty-one percent of Latino boys and 43 percent of black male students fail to finish high school in six years. James Earl Davis, professor of education at Temple, joined fellow member of Philadelphia's School Reform Commission task force Johnny Irizarry to talk about the crisis. "There's been a shift in how we think about the dropout problem, from a more traditional, individual perspective where we looked at something about black boys and young men in particular that favored leaving school to thinking about these boys being pushed out," said Davis. "So from this perspective, the schools become part of the problem."