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Informationen zum Autor Abul Pitre is the former Carter G. Woodson Professor of education at Edinoboro University of Pennsylvania. Currently he is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Fayetteville State University where he teaches doctoral courses in educational leadership. Esrom Pitre is an associate principal at Donaldsonville High School. His areas of research are African American males in special education and multicultural education with a focus on racial issues as it relates to African American students. Ruth Ray is the department chair at Louisiana State University, Shreveport where she teaches courses in Educational Leadership. Her major research interest is the impact of zero tolerance policy on African American students. Twana Hilton-Pitre is the director of field experiences at Louisiana State University, Shreveport. Her areas of expertise include counseling, multicultural education, and elementary education. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Foreword Part 2 Introduction Chapter 3 The Culture of Death: The African American Child and Schooling Part 4 Foundations Chapter 5 A Historical Analysis of Black Education: The Impact of Desegregation on African Americans Chapter 6 The Context of African American Education Performance Chapter 7 African American Students Achieving Academic Success: The Need for Knowledge of Self Part 8 Curriculum Chapter 9 The Social Studies Curriculum and African American Students Chapter 10 Increasing the Level of Mathematics Achievement in African American Male Adolescents Chapter 11 Overrepresentation of African American Males in Special Education: An Examination of the Referral Process in the K-12 Public School Setting Part 12 Experiences: African American Students in School Chapter 13 African American Males in Urban Schools Chapter 14 The Experiences of African American Males in Special Education Chapter 15 The Challenge of Implementing Black History: Student Narratives of a Black History Program Chapter 16 The Conspicuously Unnoticed: High-Achieving African American Mathematics Students in Schools Deemed Academically Unacceptable Chapter 17 Counseling African American Girls in a White School Setting...
