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Title

Still not equal : expanding educational opportunity in society / edited by M. Christopher Brown II ; with assistance from RoSusan D. Bartee ; foreword by Michael L. Lomax.

Publication

New York : Peter Lang, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bartee, RoSusan D.
• Brown, M. Christopher.

Description

xiii, 465 p.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Educational equalization
• Educational equalization > United States
• Discrimination in education > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

African American college enrollment and completion / M. Christopher Brown II ... [et al.] -- Accommodation or immediacy? : the role of African Americans in the quest for education and equality in the evolution of American education / David Boers -- Closing the racial/ethnic gaps / Lisa Marie Martinez and Don Anthony Woods -- Navigating the river : environmental scanning to enable diversity programs and initiatives to withstand internal and external challenges / M. Cookie Newsom and Archie Ervin -- Historical and contemporary dilemmas facing urban Black male students today / Theodore Louis Thompson III -- Racial profiling / Sharon J. Chambers -- Equalizing education opportunities for African American students / Renee White-Clark, Grace Lappin, and Odesa Weatherford-Jacobs -- The Brown decision and its impact on African Americans / Patricia J. Larke, Alvin LarkeJr., and Evangeline M. Castle -- The LEAP for accountability? : ideology and practice of testing in a Louisiana urban elementary school / Jim Horn -- The use of Jigsawing in second language acquisition among third- and fourth-grade hispanic migrant students in Kansas / Rudolph Bustos -- Achieving success : voices of successful African American mathematics students / Angiline Powell and Robert Q. Berry III -- Reasons African American men persist to degree completion in institutions of higher education / John P. Hamilton -- Moving beyond national standards and assessment / Boyce C. Williams -- Blacks still not equal even after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 / Otis D. Alexander -- Curriculum violence : the new civil rights issue--how efforts at standardization impact the academic achievement of African Americans / Erhabor Ighodaro -- The use of corporal punishment on minorities in the public schools / Cynthia Northington -- Historically Black colleges and universities : an opportunity for leadership in the twenty-first century / Louis A. Castenell Jr. -- Vyuo vya Weusi (Black colleges) : their future, use, and survival in a white country / Baruti I. Katembo -- Community Uplift Theory for positive change of African Americans in urban schools / Floyd D. Beachum, Festus Obiakor, and Carlos R. McCray -- Mentoring across social class boundaries / Fred Muskal -- Discourse(s) of local literacy practices in adolescent jail classrooms : cultural mediation through critical race theory / Brett Elizabeth Blake -- An industry's delight : the messages, implications, and uses of positive rap and hip-hop media / Lisa D. Horton and Rodney Washington -- Still unequal : a critical exploration of early literacy instruction with primary teachers and implications for policy / Deneese L. Jones ... [et al.] -- A thing most brutish : the Calibanization of the African American male / James Richardson -- African American college studients' attitudes toward mental health treatment / Mavis Mitchell ... [et al.] -- Education enhances equality and fairness : where do people of color fit in global education systems? / James Mbuva -- Obstacles to equal opportunity for African refugees in the United States / Elavie Ndura and Omiunota Nelly Ukpokodu -- Counseling for global citizenship education as innovation in South nations / Richard Irikefe Okorodudu -- Provision of sports facilities and coaching for university undergraduates in Southern Africa : a comparative study of students with and without disabilities / I.U. Onyewadume and H.S. Dhaliwal -- Equality or inequality : physical education for the children of Africa, problems and way forward / I.U Onyewadume.

ISBN

• 9780820497273
• 0820497274
• 9780820495224 (pb : alk. paper)
• 0820495220 (pb : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007003223

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library