Full Description
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.
Contents
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
