Black Educational Choice
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Black Educational Choice
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Author : Diana T. Slaughter-Kotzin
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2011-11-08
Black Educational Choice written by Diana T. Slaughter-Kotzin and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-08 with Education categories.
This 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. Closing the K–12 achievement gap is critical to the future welfare of African American individuals, families, and communities—and to the future of our nation as a whole. The black-white academic achievement gap—the significant statistical difference in academic performance between African American students and their white peers—is the single greatest impediment to achieving racial equality and social justice in America. Black Educational Choice provides parents, citizens, educators, and policymakers the critical knowledge they need to leverage the national trend toward increasing and diversifying K–12 school choice beyond traditional neighborhood public schools. Parents can use this information to optimize the success of their own African American children, while policymakers and educators can apply these insights to help close the black-white academic achievement gap throughout America. The book collects the interdisciplinary, multi-racial, and multi-ethnic perspectives of education experts to address the questions of millions of anxious African American families: "Would sending our children to a private school or a charter school significantly better their chances of closing the achievement gap and becoming successful individuals? And if so, what kinds of challenges would they likely experience in these alternative educational settings?"
Black Educational Choice
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Author : Diana T. Slaughter-Kotzin
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2011-11-08
Black Educational Choice written by Diana T. Slaughter-Kotzin and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-08 with Education categories.
This 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. Closing the K–12 achievement gap is critical to the future welfare of African American individuals, families, and communities—and to the future of our nation as a whole. The black-white academic achievement gap—the significant statistical difference in academic performance between African American students and their white peers—is the single greatest impediment to achieving racial equality and social justice in America. Black Educational Choice provides parents, citizens, educators, and policymakers the critical knowledge they need to leverage the national trend toward increasing and diversifying K–12 school choice beyond traditional neighborhood public schools. Parents can use this information to optimize the success of their own African American children, while policymakers and educators can apply these insights to help close the black-white academic achievement gap throughout America. The book collects the interdisciplinary, multi-racial, and multi-ethnic perspectives of education experts to address the questions of millions of anxious African American families: "Would sending our children to a private school or a charter school significantly better their chances of closing the achievement gap and becoming successful individuals? And if so, what kinds of challenges would they likely experience in these alternative educational settings?"
Race Schools Hope
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Author : Lisa M. Stulberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Race Schools Hope written by Lisa M. Stulberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Education categories.
How can school choice be a form of both giving up on public education and a form of hope and faith in American schooling? This book helps us to make sense of why and how African Americans participate in and lead school choice reforms. The author argues that regardless of the success or failure of these reforms, they represent an important political phenomenon in American schooling and in African American history and politics. The first section of the book focuses on African American school choice in the post-Brown period, examining how these reforms became a response to desegregation politics and policies. The second section focuses on the author's experience as a co-founder of a charter school in Oakland, California at a time when Oakland's public schools were found to be severely under-serving African-American students.
School Choice And Diversity
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Author : Janelle T. Scott
language : en
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Release Date : 2005-08-20
School Choice And Diversity written by Janelle T. Scott and has been published by Teachers College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-20 with Education categories.
This collection of essays will help readers to disentangle the complex relationship between school choice and student diversity in the post-Brown era. Presenting the views of the most prominent researchers of school choice reforms in the U.S., this book argues that the contexts under which school choice plans are adopted are actually responsible for shaping student diversity within schools. Using sociological, economic, and political analysis, the authors present studies of controlled and voluntary choice plans, charter schools, private school selection, and their interaction with race, social class, gender, and student disability.
Making The Choice
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Author : Heather R. Boughton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Making The Choice written by Heather R. Boughton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with African Americans categories.
Abstract: Over a century after the establishment of free public schooling and fifty years after the Supreme Court emphasized the importance of inclusion in the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the United States still struggles to provide a high quality education to all students. African-Americans are particularly affected by disparities in schooling; concentrated in school districts with fewer resources and high levels of community disadvantage, African-American students remain behind in terms of both academic achievement and graduation rates. Faced with persistent inequities in public education, many African-American parents are now turning to charter schools as alternative school options. Among some black political leaders and academics, however, there is concern that charter schools will not have a positive long-term impact on the African-American community. Given the potential conflict between criticisms of charter schools and their immediate desire for change, it is possible that African-American parents experience a sense of cognitive dissonance as they decide where to enroll their children in school. In one-on-one interviews with forty parents in an Ohio metropolitan city, I explored this possibility and found that parents do not describe their school choice process in terms of dissonance. Rather, my participants acknowledged racial inequality and maintained an interest in change for the greater good of the community, while at the same time expressing individualistic views about their own child's educational experiences. That is, parents were able to successfully separate their individualistic need for better schooling from their desire to see collective change. Parents' individualistic perspective on education was fueled by a lack of faith in the government's ability to provide their children with a high-quality education. Because they did not expect significant changes in the public school system, my participants felt compelled to take personal control of their child's education by actively engaging in school choice.
Generational Change
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Author : Paul E. Peterson
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2006
Generational Change written by Paul E. Peterson and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Education categories.
This volume draws upon the best available research to examine the various education policy alternatives that will close the black-white achievement gap by 2028_the year when the Supreme Court has mandated that affirmative action in college admissions will end.
Surmounting All Odds Vol 1
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Author : Carol Camp Yeakey
language : en
Publisher: IAP
Release Date : 2000-09-01
Surmounting All Odds Vol 1 written by Carol Camp Yeakey and has been published by IAP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09-01 with Education categories.
Volume 1 in the two volume set about overcoming the odds in African American Education.
African Americans And College Choice
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Author : Kassie Freeman
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
African Americans And College Choice written by Kassie Freeman and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Social Science categories.
Acknowledging the disparity between the number of African American high school students who aspire toward higher education and the number who actually attend, this book uncovers factors that influence African American students' decisions regarding college. Kassie Freeman brings new insights to the current body of research on African Americans and higher education by examining the impact that family, school, community, and home have in the decision-making process. She explores specific factors that contribute to a student's predisposition toward higher education, including gender, economics, and high school curriculum, and seeks to bridge the gap in understanding why aspiration does not immediately translate into participation. Educators and policy makers interested in increasing African American students' participation in higher education will benefit from the exploration of this paradox.
The Choice We Face
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Author : Jon Hale
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2021-08-10
The Choice We Face written by Jon Hale and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-10 with Education categories.
A comprehensive history of school choice in the US, from its birth in the 1950s as the most effective weapon to oppose integration to its lasting impact in reshaping the public education system today. Most Americans today see school choice as their inalienable right. In The Choice We Face, scholar Jon Hale reveals what most fail to see: school choice is grounded in a complex history of race, exclusion, and inequality. Through evaluating historic and contemporary education policies, Hale demonstrates how reframing the way we see school choice represents an opportunity to evolve from complicity to action. The idea of school choice, which emerged in the 1950s during the civil rights movement, was disguised by American rhetoric as a symbol of freedom and individualism. Shaped by the ideas of conservative economist Milton Friedman, the school choice movement was a weapon used to oppose integration and maintain racist and classist inequalities. Still supported by Democrats and Republicans alike, this policy continues to shape American education in nuanced ways, Hale shows—from the expansion of for-profit charter schools and civil rights–based reform efforts to the appointment of Betsy DeVos. Exposing the origins of a movement that continues to privilege middle- to upper-class whites while depleting the resources for students left behind, The Choice We Face is a bold, definitive new history that promises to challenge long-held assumptions on education and redefines our moment as an opportunity to save it—a choice we will not have for much longer.
School Choice
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Author : Virginia Walden Ford
language : en
Publisher: Beaufort Books
Release Date : 2019-11-21
School Choice written by Virginia Walden Ford and has been published by Beaufort Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Winner of the 2020 Silver Nautilus Book Award On a cold winter night in February of 1967, a large rock shattered a bedroom window in Virginia Walden Ford's home in Little Rock, Arkansas, landing in her baby sister's crib. Outside, members of the Ku Klux Klan burned a cross on her family's lawn. Faceless bigots were terrorizing Virginia, her parents, and her sisters–all because her father, Harry Fowler, dared to take a job as the assistant superintendent of personnel for the Little Rock School District. He was more than qualified, but he was black. In her searing new memoir, legendary school choice advocate Virginia Walden Ford recounts the lessons she learned as a child in the segregated south. She drew on those experiences—and the legacies handed to her by her parents and ancestors—thirty years later, when she built an army of parents to fight for school choice in our nation's capital. School Choice: A Legacy to Keep, tells the dramatic true story of how poor D.C. parents, with the support of unlikely allies, faced off against some of America's most prominent politicians—and won a better future for children.