Author: Derrick Darby Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022652549X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 209
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“An indispensable text for understanding educational racial injustice and contributing to initiatives to mitigate it.” —Educational Theory American students vary in educational achievement, but white students in general typically have better test scores and grades than black students. Why is this the case, and what can school leaders do about it? In The Color of Mind, Derrick Darby and John L. Rury answer these pressing questions and show that we cannot make further progress in closing the achievement gap until we understand its racist origins. Telling the story of what they call the Color of Mind—the idea that there are racial differences in intelligence, character, and behavior—they show how philosophers, such as David Hume and Immanuel Kant, and American statesman Thomas Jefferson, contributed to the construction of this pernicious idea, how it influenced the nature of schooling and student achievement, and how voices of dissent such as Frederick Douglass, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and W.E.B. Du Bois debunked the Color of Mind and worked to undo its adverse impacts. Rejecting the view that racial differences in educational achievement are a product of innate or cultural differences, Darby and Rury uncover the historical interplay between ideas about race and American schooling, to show clearly that the racial achievement gap has been socially and institutionally constructed. School leaders striving to bring justice and dignity to American schools today must work to root out the systemic manifestations of these ideas within schools, while still doing what they can to mitigate the negative effects of poverty, segregation, inequality, and other external factors that adversely affect student achievement. While we can’t expect schools alone to solve these vexing social problems, we must demand that they address the injustices associated with how we track, discipline, and deal with special education that reinforce long-standing racist ideas. That is the only way to expel the Color of Mind from schools, close the racial achievement gap, and afford all children the dignity they deserve.
Author: Derrick Darby Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022652535X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 209
Book Description
American students vary in educational achievement, but white students in general typically have better test scores and grades than black students. Why is this the case, and what can school leaders do about it? In The Color of Mind, Derrick Darby and John L. Rury answer these pressing questions and show that we cannot make further progress in closing the achievement gap until we understand its racist origins. Telling the story of what they call the Color of Mind—the idea that there are racial differences in intelligence, character, and behavior—they show how philosophers, such as David Hume and Immanuel Kant, and American statesman Thomas Jefferson, contributed to the construction of this pernicious idea, how it influenced the nature of schooling and student achievement, and how voices of dissent such as Frederick Douglass, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and W. E. B. Du Bois debunked the Color of Mind and worked to undo its adverse impacts. Rejecting the view that racial differences in educational achievement are a product of innate or cultural differences, Darby and Rury uncover the historical interplay between ideas about race and American schooling, to show clearly that the racial achievement gap has been socially and institutionally constructed. School leaders striving to bring justice and dignity to American schools today must work to root out the systemic manifestations of these ideas within schools, while still doing what they can to mitigate the negative effects of poverty, segregation, inequality, and other external factors that adversely affect student achievement. While we cannot expect schools alone to solve these vexing social problems, we must demand that they address the dignitary injustices associated with how we track, discipline, and deal with special education that reinforce long-standing racist ideas. That is the only way to expel the Color of Mind from schools, close the racial achievement gap, and afford all children the dignity they deserve.
Author: Alice T. Cheek Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1465387358 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 155
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It’s their senior year and the first day back to school. No more summer sleep-ins, summer jobs, or summer camps. Chandi Paige, her cousin Allison Maples. Best friend and the boy next door Tracy Morgan, and high school sweetheart lovers Eddie Paschal and Michelle Phelps are ready. At least they would like to think they are. Nothing could prepare the five of them for what the first day back would lead to. Their goal was to exceed higher than before, prepare their lives for college, stay focused, and out of love. But their lives are interrupted with the likeness of Rasheed Zuria, the exchange student from Nigeria. Coty Mitchell, the daughter of Lieutenant Henry Mitchell and Eastern’s potential draft pick Tim Jessup. Their senior year will bring distractions that without a doubt is guaranteed to place a cloud of distrust on their friendships, leaving the certainty if it can hold up through death, love, and STD, without interrupting their college dreams? Can the five remain focused on their studies as the circle grows with untamed love, teenage complications and disappointments? Only the last day of school will speak loud and clear as they take their final walk together at graduation.
Author: Steve P. Jefferson Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781977649515 Category : Languages : en Pages : 42
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Forgotten Accomplishments from Men of Color highlights the contributions of those that did not make it into today's modern history books. This book is a fantastic resource for elementary and middle school children as they learn about American History and can also be used for Black History Month.
Author: Octavia Goredema Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1119789079 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 243
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Advance your career with this insightful playbook for underrepresented women In Prep, Push, Pivot, award-winning career coach and author Octavia Goredema delivers an indispensable career coaching guide for women looking for a new job, dealing with job loss, pivoting to a new career, or returning to the workforce after an extended absence. You'll discover practical strategies you can implement at crucial times during your career, ensuring your considerable talents and skills are used to their full potential. In this important book, you'll: Discover your true worth, cement your career values, and carve out a realistic and aspirational career plan Learn how to position yourself for a promotion, navigate a break in your career, and integrate your role as a mother or caregiver with your professional life Deal with monumental career changes, contribute to the development of the women around you, and benefit from an array of professional resources in your journey forward Perfect for women who are ready to overcome any obstacles that await them, Prep, Push, Pivot is a thoughtful road map to help women chart their professional and personal success.
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004407987 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 174
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Mentoring Students of Color explores the ways in which race plays a critical role in mentoring youth of color and provides mentors, practitioners and researchers a critical lense for understanding the ways in which cross-racial mentoring impact youth.
Author: Richard R. Valencia Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317691059 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 423
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Students of Color and the Achievement Gap is a comprehensive, landmark analysis of an incontrovertible racialized reality in U.S. K-12 public education---the relentless achievement gap between low-socioeconomic students of color and their economically advantaged White counterparts. Award winning author and scholar Richard Valencia provides an authoritative and systemic treatment of the achievement gap, focusing on Black and Latino/Latina students. He examines the societal and educational factors that help to create and maintain the achievement gap by drawing from critical race theory, an asset-based perspective and a systemic inequality approach. By showing how racialized opportunity structures in society and schools ultimately result in racialized patterns of academic achievement in schools, Valencia shows how the various indicators of the achievement gap are actually symptoms of the societal and school quality gaps. Following each of these concerns, Valencia provides a number of reform suggestions that can lead to systemic transformations of K-12 education. Students of Color and the Achievement Gap makes a persuasive and well documented case that school success for students of color, and the empowerment of their parents, can only be fully understood and realized when contextualized within broader political, economic, and cultural frameworks.
Author: Carole Marsh Publisher: Gallopade International ISBN: 0635082160 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 40
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Kids will learn how black art is used to share ideas, communicate feelings, and impart wisdom, and how creativity brings joy and inspiration to our lives. And, most importantly, how it isn't limited to famous or the talented-you, to can be an artist! This 35-page reproducible book is a sampling of the talent from the past and present. One of the most wonderful things you'll discover is that some of the sweetest words come from the simplest things said by people who were not necessarily professionals. And professional or amateur, black art, like the color purple, is for sharing. We are all grateful for the contributions made and the joy they have brought to our lives.
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