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The Shame of the Nation
Crown Publishing Group 2005; US$ 16.00?The nation needs to be confronted with the crime that we?re committing and the promises we are betraying. This is a book about betrayal of the young, who have no power to defend themselves. It is not intended to make readers comfortable.? Over the past several years, Jonathan Kozol has visited nearly 60 public schools. Virtually everywhere, he finds... more...
The Hardest Deal of All
University Press of Mississippi 2007; US$ 25.00Race has shaped public education in the Magnolia State, from Reconstruction through the Carter Administration. For The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980 Charles C. Bolton mines newspaper accounts, interviews, journals, archival records, legal and financial documents, and other sources to uncover the complex... more...
African-American/Afro-Canadian Schooling
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Tracing the history of black schooling in North America, this book emphasizes factors in society at large - and sometimes within black communities - which led to black children being separate from the white majority. In African-American/Afro-Canadian Schooling: From the Colonial Period to the Present , Charles L. Glenn reveals the evolution of assumptions... more...
Creating the Opportunity to Learn
ASCD 2011; US$ 27.95Two giants in the fields of education, psychology, and equityA. Wade Boykin and Pedro Noguerareveal bold truths about the achievement gap and provide you with a promising framework focused on key factors drawn from successful schools. Here's your opportunity to understand why some school districts are making more progress than others,... more...
Black Educational Choice: Assessing the Private and Public Alternatives to Traditional K?12 Public Schools
ABC-CLIO 2011; US$ 48.00This important book provides African American parents with the knowledge to diversify K?12 school choices beyond traditional neighborhood public schools in order to optimize the educational chances of their own children, and it will help educators and policymakers to close the black-white academic achievement gap throughout America. more...
The Black Revolution on Campus
University of California Press 2012; US$ 34.95The Black Revolution on Campus is the definitive account of an extraordinary but forgotten chapter of the black freedom struggle. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Black students organized hundreds of protests that sparked a period of crackdown, negotiation, and reform that profoundly transformed college life. At stake was the very mission of higher... more...
Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children's Books about Boys
Wiley 2002; US$ 15.95A Treasury of Hundreds of Books that Help Boys Grow and Flourish "Images-strong, proud and happy, brave, and now also humorous . . . what a joy it is to see black faces of all shades in our children's books."-Doug E. Doug, Actor, The Bill Cosby Show "As a child . . . I wish there had been more books that reflected my world and my interests."-Earl... more...









