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.
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.