African American Students Career and College Readiness
The Journey Unraveled
Contributions by Brandee Appling, Elizabeth Auguste, Christopher T. Belser, Tristen Bergholtz, Eric M. Brown, S. Kent Butler, Ashley Churblock, Jennifer Riedl Cross, Tracy L. Cross, Jennifer R. Curry, Jessica Exkano, Andrea Dawn Frazier, Michael T. Garrett, Pamela N. Harris, Dana C. Hart, Natoya Haskins, Nicole R. Hill, DJalon J. Jackson, Shandricka E. Jackson, J. Richelle Joe, Brian Kooyman, Michele Lopez, Berlisha Morton, M. Ann Shillingford, Lauren Treacy, Linwood Vereen, Amy E. Williams, Cyrus R. Williams III Edited by Jennifer R. Curry, M. Ann Shillingford
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Publication date:
08 October 2015Length of book:
382 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksISBN-13: 9781498506878
African American Students’ Career and College Readiness: The Journey Unraveled explores the historical, legal, and socio-political issues of education affecting African American students and their career and college readiness. Each chapter has been written based on the authors’ experience and passion for the success of students in the African American population. Some of the chapters will appear to be written in a more conversational and idiomatic tone, whereas others are presented in a more erudite format. Each chapter, however, presents a contextual portrayal of the contemporary, and often dysfunctional, pattern of society’s approach to supporting this population. Contributors also present progressive paradigms for future achievements.
Through the pages of this book, readers will understand and hopefully appreciate what can be done to promote positive college bound self-efficacy, procurement of resources in the high school to college transition, exposure and access to college possibilities, and implications for practice in school counseling, education leadership, and higher education.
Through the pages of this book, readers will understand and hopefully appreciate what can be done to promote positive college bound self-efficacy, procurement of resources in the high school to college transition, exposure and access to college possibilities, and implications for practice in school counseling, education leadership, and higher education.
This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the issues undergirding African American students’ vocational and collegiate success. The chapter authors cite current scholarship in the areas of STEM, special education, and educational policy to critically analyze the environmental influences affecting these students’ career readiness and offer evidence-based solutions for school personnel and policy-makers. A must for school counselors, in particular.