Research Catalog

Title

Black educational choice : assessing the private and public alternatives to traditional K-12 public schools / Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe ... [et al.], editors ; foreword by James A. Banks.

Publication

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Slaughter-Defoe, Diana T.

Description

xvi, 289 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"This important book provides African American parents with the knowledge to diversify K-12 school choices beyond traditional neighborhood public schools in order to optimize the educational chances of their own children, and it will help educators and policymakers to close the Black-white academic achievement gap throughout America"--

Subjects

• Academic achievement > United States
• Alternative education > United States
• Educational change > United States
• African Americans > Education
• Alternative schools > United States
• School choice > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Towards black educational choice / Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe ... [et al.] -- Negotiating race and class in Anderson School: 1983-1994 / Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe -- "It's about race ... no, it isn't!" Negotiating race and social class: youth identities at Anderson School in 2005 / Enora Brown -- Whither go the status quo? Independent education at the turn of the twenty-first century / Savannah Shange, Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe -- "There is a subliminal attitude": African American parental perspectives on independent schooling / Howard C. Stevenson, Edith G. Arrington -- "More than what we read in books": black student perspectives on independent schools / Edith G. Arrington, Howard C. Stevenson -- The Black-white achievement gap in highly selective independent high schools: towards a model explaining emergent racial differences / Peter Kuriloff, Amanda C. Soto, Rachel Garver -- The influence of private and public school contexts on the development of children's racial coping / Deborah J. Johnson, Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe, Meeta Banerjee -- Commentary: we can't wait for "superman": the importance of parental involvement in schools / Karen G. Carlson -- The power of positionality in the educational marketplace: lessons from the school choices of African American mothers / Camille M. Wilson -- Parental choice and involvement in the education of Sudanese unaccompanied minors / Meenal Rana ... [et al.] -- Do Charter schools work for African American children? Separating the wheat from the chaff / Valerie C. Lundy-Wagner, Herbert M. Turner III -- Charter schools in New York's black communities: managing resources in local organizational fields / Luis A. Huerta ... [et al.] -- When community control meets privatization: the search for empowerment in African American charter schools / Janelle T. Scott -- Closed: competition, segregation, and the black student experience in charter Schools / David R. Garcia, Monica L. Stigler -- Commentary: "the teachers' unions strike back?" No need to wait for "superman": magnet schools have brought success to urban public school students for over 30 years / V.P. Franklin -- Enhancing the schooling experience of African American students in predominantly white independent schools: conceptual and strategic considerations to developing a critical third space / Robert Cooper -- The changing landscape: enhancing the public school option for black youth / Lara Perez-Felkner, E.C. Hedberg, Barbara Schneider -- Where should African American parents send their children to school? Disentangling schools' racial composition from students' financial Resources / Jelani Mandara ... [et al.] -- Visible now? Black educational choices for the few, the desperate, and the far between / Howard C. Stevenson ... [et al.].

Call Number

Sc E 12-405

ISBN

• 9780313393839 (hardback)
• 0313393834 (hardback)

LCCN

2011037272

OCLC

721891459

Title

Black educational choice : assessing the private and public alternatives to traditional K-12 public schools / Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe ... [et al.], editors ; foreword by James A. Banks.

Imprint

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2012.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Slaughter-Defoe, Diana T.

Research Call Number

Sc E 12-405