Young, gifted, and Black : promoting high achievement among African-American students / Theresa Perry, Claude Steele, and Asa G. Hilliard III.

Three African-American intellectuals on a crucial educational issue of our time A huge portion of the school reform debate in America--explicitly and implicitly--is framed around the success and failure of African-American children in school. The test-score "achievement gap" between white...

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Main Author: Perry, Theresa.
Other Authors: Steele, Claude., Hilliard, Asa G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, [2003]
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Table of Contents:
  • Up from the parched earth: toward a theory of African-American achievement
  • Freedom for literacy and literacy for freedom: the African-American philosophy of education
  • Competing theories of group achievement
  • Achieving in post-Civil Rights America: the outline of a theory
  • Stereotype threat and African-American student achievement
  • No mystery: closing the achievement gap between Africans and excellence.