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Surmounting All Odds: Education, Opportunity, and Society in the New Millennium. Volume 1. A Volume in Research on African American Education.
| العنوان: | Surmounting All Odds: Education, Opportunity, and Society in the New Millennium. Volume 1. A Volume in Research on African American Education. |
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| اللغة: | English |
| المؤلفون: | Yeakey, Carol Camp, Henderson, Ronald D. |
| الإتاحة: | Information Age Publishing, 80 Mason Street, Greenwich, CT 06830. Web site: http://www.infoagepub.com. |
| Peer Reviewed: | N |
| Page Count: | 406 |
| تاريخ النشر: | 2003 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Books Collected Works - General |
| Descriptors: | Academic Achievement, Black Students, Child Welfare, Culturally Relevant Education, Curriculum Development, Delinquency, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education, Excellence in Education, Family School Relationship, Federal Legislation, Higher Education, Males, Minority Group Children, Nontraditional Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Racial Discrimination, School Choice, Social Bias, Urban Schools |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: | California, Florida, Texas |
| Laws, Policies and Program Identifiers: | Brown v Board of Education, No Child Left Behind Act 2001 |
| ردمك: | 978-1-931576-26-0 |
| مستخلص: | This volume includes the first 15 papers in a 32-paper collection. After a prologue by Mkhululi David Graham Du Bois entitled "Seeking Truth in Research", the papers are: (1) "`Knowledge is Light, Knowledge is Power': African American Education in Antebellum America" (Christopher M. Span); (2) "Curriculum, Culture, and Power: Reshaping the Education of African Americans" (William H. Watkins); (3) "The Changing Faces of Education for African Americans after Brown: Equity, Excellence, Choice, Vouchers, and Privatization" (Frank Brown); (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); (5) "Family and School Environments Working Together to Impact Academic Achievement in African American Adolescents" (DeMarquis Hayes and Michael Cunningham); (6) "Battling before Birth: Institutionalized Barriers to the Health and Well-Being of African American Children" (Jeanita W. Richardson); (7) "African American Violence Exposure: An Emerging Health Issue" (Alvin L. Killough, Wendy L. Webster, Valerie B. Brown, Eric Houch, Christopher L. Edwards, and Patrick E. Logue); (8) "Dashed Hopes and Withered Dreams: Alternative Schools for Boys who `Don't Fit In'" (Christopher Dunbar, Jr. and Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela); (9) "From Classrooms to Cellblocks: African American Juveniles in the Justice System" (Carol Camp Yeakey); (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); (11) "`Leaving No Child Behind': Examining Issues of School Reform and Social Justice" (Beverly D. Epps and Harriet R. Morrison); (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 Tyhesha N. Goss); (13) "The Imputation of Black Inferiority: Does it Contribute to the Achievement Gap?" (Barbara A. Sizemore); (14) "The More Things Change...Trends in Identification with Academics among Minority Students from 1972-1992" (Jason W. Osborne); and (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). (Papers contain references.) (SM) |
| Entry Date: | 2004 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | ED482423 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | ERIC |
| ردمك: | 978-1-931576-26-0 |
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