Del 1 i serien Research on African American Education

Surmounting All Odds

Education, Opportunity, and Society in the New Millennium

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

AvCarol Camp Yeakey,Ronald D. Henderson

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Volume 1 in the two volume set about overcoming the odds in African American Education.

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Utgivningsdatum2003-01-01
Mått156 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt758 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieResearch on African American Education
Antal sidor416
FörlagEmerald Publishing Inc
ISBN9781931576277

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Preface; Carol Camp Yeakey and Ronald D. Henderson.Prologue: Seeking Truth in Research and Scholarship; Mkhululi David Graham Du Bois.Introduction; Carol Camp Yeakey and Ronald D. Henderson.Part I. Historical and Contemporary ContextChapter 1. “Knowledge is Light, Knowledge is Power”: African American Education in Antebellum America; Christopher M. Span.Chapter 2. Curriculum, Culture, and Power: Reshaping the Education of African Americans; William H. Watkins.Chapter 3. The Changing Faces of Education for African Americans after Brown: Equity, Excellence, Choice, Vouchers, and Privatization; Frank Brown.Chapter 4. Language, Race, and Schooling: A Conceptual and Historical Legacy of Educational Language Policies and Politics Affecting the Ethnolinguistic Minority Child of African Descent; Rodney K. Hopson.Chapter 5. Family and School Environments Working Together to Impact Academic Achievement in African American Adolescents; DeMarcus Hayes and Michael Cunningham.Chapter 6. Battling Before Birth: Institutionalized Barriers to the Health and Well-Being of African American Children; Jeanita W. Richardson.Chapter 7. African American Violence Exposure: An Emerging Health Issue; Alvin L. Killough, Wendy L. Wadsen, Valerie R. Brown, Eric Houck, Christopher L. Edwards, and Patrick E. Logue.Chapter 8. Dashed Hopes and Withered Dreams: Alternative School for Boys Who “Don’t Fit In”; Christopher Dunbar, Jr. and Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela.Chapter 9. From Classrooms to Cellblocks: African American Juveniles in the Justice System; Carol Camp Yeakey.Chapter 10. Sports, Opportunities, and the American Dream: Athletic Investment and Mobility Aspirations of Ethnically Diverse High School Students; Amber Rodriguez and Jomills Henry Braddock II.Chapter 11. “Leaving No Child Behind”: Examining Issues of School Reform and Social Justice; Beverly D. Epps and Harriet R. Morrison.Part II. Teaching, Learning, and AchievementChapter 12. Historical and Developmental Perspectives on Black Academic Achievement: Debunking the “Acting White” Myth and Posing New Directions for Research; Margaret Beale Spencer, William E. Cross, Jr., Vinay Harpalani, and Tyesha N. Goss.Chapter 13. The Imputation of Black Inferiority: Does It Contribute to the Achievement Gap?; Barbara A. Sizemore.Chapter 14. The More Things Change… Trends in Identification with Academics among Minority Students from 1972–1992; Jason W. Osborne.Chapter 15. One Size Does Not Fit All: An Examination of Issues in Enhancing the Academic Achievement of African American Pre-College Students; Diane S. Pollard and Olga M. Welch.Chapter 16. Mining the Fields of Teacher Education: Preparing Teachers to Teach African American Children in Urban Schools; Patricia A. Edwards, Gwendolyn T. McMillon, and Clifford T. Bennett.Chapter 17. Mentoring Adolescents At Risk or At Promise; Tammie M. Causey and Kassie Freeman.Chapter 18. Why Are There So Few African Americans in Gifted Education Programs?; Frank C. Worrell.Chapter 19. The Disproportionality of African Americans in Special Education: An Enduring Threat to Equality and Opportunity; Audrey Davis McCray, Gwendolyn Webb-Johnson, and La Vonne I. Neal.Chapter 20. The Dropout Rate among African American Males: A Policy Perspective; Richard R. Verdugo and Ronald D. Henderson.Chapter 21. School A or School B? The Nexus Between Race and School Choice; RoSusan D. Bates, M. Christopher Brown II, and William T. Trent.Chapter 22. A New Model for Governance in Big City School Districts; Richard C. Hunter, Frank Brown, and Susan Donahoo.Part III. Post-Secondary Schooling and EducationChapter 23. Two Steps Forward, Three Steps Back: Campus Climate, Gender, and African American Representation in Higher Education; Ginshea Y. Dinnall and Walter R. Allen.Chapter 24. Affirmative Action Attitudes of African American Community College Students: The Impact of Educational Aspirations, Self-Interest, and Environment; Eboni M. Zamani.Chapter 25. Challenging the Academic Divide: An Examination of Persistence Factors among Low-Income Students of Color; Eugene L. Anderson, Carol Camp Yeakey, Harriet R. Morrison, and Beverly D. Epps.Chapter 26. Misrepresented and Misunderstood: Contemporary Dilemmas Facing HBCUs; Jeanita W. Richardson.Chapter 27. Navigating the Shape of the River: Helping Black Students Succeed in Colleges and Universities; Joy L. Gaston.Chapter 28. A Different World: The Social and Educational Objectives of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Before and After the Brown Decision; V.P. Franklin.Chapter 29. When and Where We Enter: African American Students’ Marginalization in the Context of a Predominantly White Multicultural Education Course; Heather M. Pleasants.Chapter 30. The Importance of Increasing the Numbers of Individuals of Color to Enhance Cultural Responsiveness in Program Evaluation; Henry T. Frierson.Chapter 31. Percentage Plans in Admissions: Redefining Access in American Higher Education in Texas, California, and Florida; Eugene L. Anderson.Chapter 32. A Case for Race Consciousness; T. Alexander Aleinikoff.