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Advancing Democracy
The University of North Carolina Press 2004; US$ 30.00As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), it is important to consider the historical struggles that led to this groundbreaking decision. Four years earlier in Texas, the Sweatt v. Painter decision allowed blacks access to the University of Texas's law school for the first time. Amilcar Shabazz shows that the... more...
School District Leadership Matters
Springer 2009; US$ 79.99Intends to challenge policy makers, administrators, and academics in the field of educational leadership to reassess their traditional approaches to learning, working, and planning. This book bridges the traditional divide between the generalizations of social science theory on the one hand and the world of educational practice on the other. more...
Literacy in African American Communities
Taylor and Francis 2000; US$ 59.95This volume explores the unique sociocultural contexts of literacy development, values, and practices in African American communities. African Americans--young and old--are frequently the focus of public discourse about literacy. In a society that values a rather sophisticated level of literacy, they are among those who are most disadvantaged by low... more...
Chronicles Of Faith
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 29.95Chronicles of Faith records the life of a man who influenced the course of higher education for African Americans and Africans throughout the twentieth century. Patterson, orphaned soon after birth in 1901, became a veterinary scientist at Tuskegee Institute and soon thereafter--at the depths of the Depression--was selected as president of that... more...
100+ Educational Strategies to Teach Children
African American Images 2008; US$ 11.95Because the attrition rate for new teachers in high-poverty schools averages between 40% and 50% over the first five years of teaching, this investigation offers practical solutions to more than 100 of the daily challenges they face. With an emphasis on pragmatic approaches that can be accomplished in the classroom, the book argues that many of the... more...
An African Centered Response to Ruby Payne's Poverty Theory
African American Images 2007; US$ 12.95This challenge to influential educator Ruby Payne's theories about the impact of class differences and economics on teaching and learning puts forward other factors as better predictors of student performance. Pointing to success stories in schools that serve low-income students, this refutation of Payne's popular teacher-training program asserts... more...
Educating African American Students
R&L Education 2009; US$ 26.99Using a combination of case studies and research, the contributors of this timely book highlight some of the significant issues, historical, curricular, and societal, that have led to African American students having a proportionally larger representation in special education classes, higher drop-put rates, and more incidences of in-school, race-on-race... more...
Black American Males in Higher Education
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009; US$ 134.95This is the first of two volumes that specifically addresses the subject of the disproportional decline of Black American Males in higher education. For too long, acknowledgment of this issue has been avoided for fear that it would be clearly and too painfully felt. It is apparent that this issue can no longer be ignored and the need to examine and... more...
Black American Males in Higher Education
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009; US$ 144.95Part of the "Emerald's Diversity in Higher Education" series, this volume presents discussions related to reports on research and theoretical views pertaining to Black males in higher education. It also includes discussions of intervention programs within or associated with institutions of higher education. more...
Global Values Education
Springer 2009; US$ 139.99Presents research on major discourses in values education globally. This book explores international concerns in the field of globalisation and comparative education. It is suitable for researchers, practitioners and policy makers in values education, multiculturalism and moral education. more...









