Educating African American Students

Foundations, Curriculum, and Experiences

Foreword by Terence Hicks East Tennessee State University Contributions by Naim Akbar, Michelle Barconey, Frank Cook, Rodrick Jenkins, Chance Lewis, Carol McCree, Shahid Muhammad, Peter Sheppard, Luria Stubblefield Edited by Abul Pitre Fayetteville State University, North Carolina, Esrom Pitre, Ruth Ray, Twana Hilton-Pitre

Publication date:

15 August 2009

Length of book:

176 pages

Publisher

R&L Education

Dimensions:

241x162mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781607092322

Using 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 violence. The contributors draw from critical pedagogy, multicultural education, and the Afrocentric canon to critique the American educational system. Educating African American Students examines historical issues that are significant for understanding the current state of affairs for African American education; addresses problems and issues in social studies education, mathematics education, and the overrepresentation of African American males in special education; and poignantly illuminates the necessity for renewed activism by telling the stories of African American children and their schooling experiences.

Chapter 1 Foreword
Part 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 The Culture of Death: The African American Child and Schooling
Part 4 Foundations
Chapter 5 A Historical Analysis of Black Education: The Impact of Desegregation on African Americans
Chapter 6 The Context of African American Education Performance
Chapter 7 African American Students Achieving Academic Success: The Need for Knowledge of Self
Part 8 Curriculum
Chapter 9 The Social Studies Curriculum and African American Students
Chapter 10 Increasing the Level of Mathematics Achievement in African American Male Adolescents
Chapter 11 Overrepresentation of African American Males in Special Education: An Examination of the Referral Process in the K-12 Public School Setting
Part 12 Experiences: African American Students in School
Chapter 13 African American Males in Urban Schools
Chapter 14 The Experiences of African American Males in Special Education
Chapter 15 The Challenge of Implementing Black History: Student Narratives of a Black History Program
Chapter 16 The Conspicuously Unnoticed: High-Achieving African American Mathematics Students in Schools Deemed Academically Unacceptable
Chapter 17 Counseling African American Girls in a White School Setting

Educating African American Students couldn't be timelier. As we prepare students for success in the twenty-first century, the curriculum that we present must reflect the strengths and accomplishments of all groups. We must eradicate the achievement gap and to do so means to seriously consider the obstacles to achievement experienced by specific cultural groups and then to do all that is necessary to remove those obstacles.