What African American Parents Want Educators to Know

Informationen zum Autor Gail L. Thompson Klappentext African-American parents and guardians are willing to work with teachers and administrators to ensure that their children receive a quality education. Yet if the historic achievement gap is ever to be eradicated, teachers, administrators, researchers, and policymakers must be more willing to view African-American parents/guardians as assets. African-American parents/guardians must be invited to verbalize their concerns, and those concerns must be taken seriously to effect meaningful and lasting change in the public school system. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 African American Parents/Guardians Discuss Their Children and Themselves Chapter 2 How Their Children Felt about School Chapter 3 Academic Problems Chapter 4 Literacy Issues Chapter 5 How African American Parents Assisted their Children Academically Chapter 6 Discipline, Suspension, Expulsion Part 7 African American Parents/Guardians Discuss the Education System Chapter 8 Beliefs and Teachers Chapter 9 Course Work and Homework Chapter 10 Beliefs about Administrators Chapter 11 Improving the Public School System Part 12 African American Parents/Guardians Discuss Other Issues Chapter 13 Racism Chapter 14 School Safety Chapter 15 Peer Pressure and the Lure of the Street Life Chapter 16 College Chapter 17 Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Gail L. Thompson
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 29.04.2008
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system
• EAN: 9781578867431
• ISBN: 978-1-57886-743-1
• Pages: 232
• Dimensions (packing): 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.9 cm
• Subjects: EDUCATION / General; Education; Race and Ethnicity; Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy; African American Studies; Race and Ethnicity