Black Educational Choice

Assessing the Private and Public Alternatives to Traditional K - 12 Public Schools

Edited by Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe - Howard C. Stevenson - Edith G. Arrington - Deborah J. Johnson

Edited by Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe, Howard C. Stevenson, Edith G. Arrington, Deborah J. Johnson

Publisher: Praeger Publishers Inc

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Format: Hardback

Publication date: 08 November 2011

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ISBN: 0313393834 ISBN 13: 9780313393839

Black Educational Choice

Provides parents, citizens, educators, and policymakers the critical knowledge they need to leverage the national trend toward increasing and diversifying K-12 school choice beyond traditional neighborhood public schools. Top page

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Closing the K-12 achievement gap is critical to the future welfare of African American individuals, families, and communities - and to the future of our nation as a whole. The Black-white academic achievement gap - the significant statistical difference in academic performance between African American students and their white peers - is the single greatest impediment to achieving racial equality and social justice in America. "Black Educational Choice" provides parents, citizens, educators, and policymakers the critical knowledge they need to leverage the national trend toward increasing and diversifying K-12 school choice beyond traditional neighborhood public schools. Parents can use this information to optimize the success of their own African American children, while policymakers and educators can apply these insights to help close the Black-white academic achievement gap throughout America. The book collects the interdisciplinary, multi-racial, and multi-ethnic perspectives of education experts to address the questions of millions of anxious African American families: "Would sending our children to a private school or a charter school significantly better their chances of closing the achievement gap and becoming successful individuals? And if so, what kinds of challenges would they likely experience in these alternative educational settings?" Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc

City: Westport

Pages: 295

More info: height 235 mm width 156 mm weight 599 gr thickness 30 mm

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Age recommended: Professional and scholarly

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC23) 379.11108996073 Library of Congress Subject: African Americans - Education