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Teacher Education and Black Communities: Implications for Access, Equity and Achievement (Contemporary Perspectives on Access, Equity, and Achievement) by Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Teachers College, Columbia University, Chance W. Lewis, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Ivory Toldson, Howard University is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Teacher Education and Black Communities: Implications for Access, Equity and Achievement (Contemporary Perspectives on Access, Equity, and Achievement) about?
The field of education has been and will continue to be essential to the survival and sustainability of the Black community. Unfortunately, over the past five decades, two major trends have become clearly evident in the Black community: (a) the decline of the academic achievement levels of Black students and (b) the disappearance of Black teachers, particularly Black males. Today, of the 3.5 million teachers in America's classrooms (AACTE, 2010) only 8% are Black teachers, and approximately 2% of these teachers are Black males (NCES, 2010). Over the past few decades, the Black teaching force in the U.S. has dropped significantly (Lewis, 2006; Lewis, Bonner, Byrd, & James, 2008; Milner & Howard, 2004), and this educational crisis shows no signs of ending in the near future. As the population of Black students in K-12 schools in the U. S. continue to rise-currently over 16% of students in America's schools are Black (NCES, 2010)-there is an urgent need to increase the presence of Black educators.\_x000D\_ \_x000D\_ The overall purpose of this edited volume is to stimulate thought and discussion among diverse audiences (e.g., policymakers, practitioners, and educational researchers) w
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- Author
- Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Teachers College, Columbia University, Chance W. Lewis, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Ivory Toldson, Howard University
- Publisher
- Information Age Publishing, Incorporated
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781623966973
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Education
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