These high-interest/low-readability biographies cover influential contemporary and historical figures. Each inspiring example of success and overcoming challenges includes background notes, vocabulary lists, answers, and a bibliography.Biographies include:Langston Hughes, poetJesse Owens, athleteBenjamin Davis, Tuskegee airmanFannie Lou Hamer, voter registration activistCoretta Scott King, civil rights leaderAlex Haley, authorMuhammad Ali, boxerFaith Ringgold, artistAlice Walker, authorGladys Knight, singerBernice Reagon, historianColin Powell, statesman/soldierBen Carson, physicianMorgan Freeman, actorGeoffrey Canada, social activistRuth Simmons, university president
A complete financial resource guide for high school and college students with more than 1,000 listings of scholarships, grants, fellowships, and internships for African American students and students of color.
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There's a crisis in our classrooms. In school districts across the country, African American children earn sub-par test scores, are frequently relegated to less challenging classes, and are discouraged from striving to excel academically. The erroneous perception that they are intellectually inferior is tragically reinforced by a vocal and destructive segment within our own culture that seeks to portray academic achievement as a sell-out to a "white" society.
Indifference toward education will doom our children to a future far beneath their capabilities -- unless we do something about it.
Here is a book that shows us how. In Achievement Matters, Hugh B. Price, President of the National Urban League, offers a sound and workable strategy that will help your child succeed, and will make America's public schools accountable for educating your child well. A highly respected writer and public speaker, Mr. Price gives practical tips on improving children's literacy and achievement levels, while instilling a lifelong enthusiasm for education as a reward in itself. He describes the benchmark skills required of students in each grade, explains how to make sure your child isn't missing out on essential courses, and recommends proven techniques for cutting through the educational bureaucracy to create an environment conducive to learning. From getting the latest technology into the classroom, to providing after-school and summer programs to give our youth direction and keep them away from the drugs and violence that have claimed so many, this book offers real help for making a powerful, positive impact. Achievement Matters is a critical tool for guiding your child to improved academic performance, and the brightest possible future.
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Willie interviews 55 African American alumnae of two universities, one predominantly white (Northwestern), and one predominantly black (Howard). What she discovers is that the college campus is sometimes the stage for an even more intense version of the racial issues in larger society. The interviewees discuss "acting white" in some situations and "acting black" in others. Willie uses their stories and stories of her own college experiences to capture the dilemmas of being black on campus.
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W. James Popham is a nationally recognized expert on educational testing. For 30 years he taught courses at UCLA in instructional methods for prospective teachers, and courses in evaluation and measurement. He has written 20 books and more than 250 articles, reports, and papers on the subject.
From the Publisher: William J. Reese's history of public schools in America examines why citizens have repeatedly turned to the schools to improve society and how successive generations of reformers have tried to alter the curriculum and teaching practice to achieve their goals.
Organized around two themes -- education as the means for reforming American society and ongoing reform within the schools themselves -- this study examines two centuries of American public education. It explores school and society in the nineteenth century, including public school growth in the antebellum and postbellum eras; competing visions of education and reform during the first half of the twentieth century; and social change and reform from the 1950s through the 1980s....
From the Publisher:
William J. Reese's history of public schools in America examines why citizens have repeatedly turned to the schools to improve society and how successive generations of reformers have tried to alter the curriculum and teaching practice to achieve their goals.
Organized around two themes -- education as the means for reforming American society and ongoing reform within the schools themselves -- this study examines two centuries of American public education. It explores school and society in the nineteenth century, including public school growth in the antebellum and postbellum eras; competing visions of education and reform during the first half of the twentieth century; and social change and reform from the 1950s through the 1980s....
Statistics show that black males are disproportionately getting in trouble and being suspended from the nation's school systems. Based on three years of participant observation research at an elementary school, "Bad Boys" offers a richly textured account of daily interactions between teachers and students to understand this serious problem. Ann Arnett Ferguson demonstrates how a group of eleven- and twelve-year-old males are identified by school personnel as "bound for jail" and how the youth construct a sense of self under such adverse circumstances. The author focuses on the perspective and voices of pre-adolescent African American boys. How does it feel to be labeled "unsalvageable" by your teacher? How does one endure school when the educators predict one's future as "a jail cell with your name on it?" Through interviews and participation with these youth in classrooms, playgrounds, movie theaters, and video arcades, the author explores what "getting into trouble" means for the boys themselves. She argues that rather than simply internalizing these labels, the boys look critically at schooling as they dispute and evaluate the meaning and motivation behind the labels that have been attached to them. Supplementing the perspectives of the boys with interviews with teachers, principals, truant officers, and relatives of the students, the author constructs a disturbing picture of how educators' beliefs in a "natural difference" of black children and the "criminal inclination" of black males shapes decisions that disproportionately single out black males as being "at risk" for failure and punishment. "Bad Boys" is a powerful challenge to prevailing views on the problem of black malesin our schools today. It will be of interest to educators, parents, and youth, and to all professionals and students in the fields of African-American studies, childhood studies, gender studies, juvenile studies, social work, and sociology, as well as anyone who is concerned about the way our schools are shaping the next generation of African American boys. Anne Arnett Ferguson is Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies and Women's Studies, Smith College.
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