Black Educational Choice - Assessing the Private and Public Alternatives to Traditional K 12

Informationen zum Autor Howard C. Stevenson Jr. is associate professor with tenure in the School, Community, and Clinical Child Psychology Program at the University of Pennsylvania. His five-year PLAAY project (Preventing Long-Term Anger and Aggression in Youth) was sponsored by the National Institutes of Mental Health. 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Diana (EDT)/ Stevenson Slaughter-defoe
• Assisted by: Edith Arrington (Editor), Edith G. Arrington (Editor), Arrington Edith G. (Editor), Deborah J. Johnson (Editor), Johnson Deborah J. (Editor), Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe (Editor), Diana Slaughter-Kotzin (Editor), Diana T. Slaughter-Kotzin (Editor), Howard Stevenson (Editor), Howard C. Stevenson (Editor), Stevenson Howard C. (Editor), Banks James A. (Foreword)
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.11.2011, delayed
• EAN: 9780313393839
• ISBN: 978-0-313-39383-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; USA, Ethnic Studies, EDUCATION / Finance, United States of America, USA, Black & Asian Studies, Funding of education & student finance, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Funding of education and student finance