Black Educational Choice: Assessing the Private and Public Alternatives to Traditional K-12 Public Schools
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.

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?"

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Black Educational Choice: Assessing the Private and Public Alternatives to Traditional K-12 Public Schools
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.

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?"

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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.

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?"


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313393839
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 11/08/2011
Pages: 312
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe, PhD, is the Constance E. Clayton Professor in Urban Education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

Howard C. Stevenson, PhD, is associate professor of education and former chair of the Applied Psychology and Human Development Division in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

Edith G. Arrington, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and a project manager at the OMG Center for Collaborative Learning, Philadelphia, PA.

Deborah J. Johnson, PhD, is professor of human development and family studies at Michigan State University.

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures xi

Foreword James A. Banks xiii

Preface and Acknowledgments xv

Introduction: Towards Black Educational Choice Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe Michael J. Myers II Howard C. Stevenson Edith G. Arrington Deborah J. Johnson 1

Part I Portraits of Independent Schools and Black Children 11

1 Negotiating Race and Class in Anderson School: 1983-1994 Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe 12

2 "It's About Race … No, It Isn't!" Negotiating Race and Social Class: Youth Identities at Anderson School in 2005 Enora Brown 28

3 Whither Go the Status Quo? Independent Education at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century Savannah Shange Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe 49

4 "There Is a Subliminal Attitude": African American Parental Perspectives on Independent Schooling Howard C. Stevenson Edith G. Arrington 64

5 "More Than What We Read in Books": Black Student Perspectives on Independent Schools Edith G. Arrington Howard C. Stevenson 78

6 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 91

7 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 106

Part II Understanding Parental Educational Choices for African American Children 123

8 Commentary: We Can't Wait for "Superman": The Importance of Parental Involvement in Schools Karen G. Carlson 124

9 The Power of Positionality in the Educational Marketplace: Lessons from the School Choices of African American Mothers Camille M. Wilson 127

10 Parental Choice and Involvement in the Education of Sudanese Unaccompanied Minors Meenal Rana Deborah J. Johnson Laura V. Bates Desiree B. Qin Andrew Saltarelli 141

Part III The Consequences of Choice: Educational Benefits to Children-To Communities? Special Focus on Charter Schools 155

11 Do Charter Schools Work for African American Children? Separating the Wheat from the Chaff Valerie C. Lundy-Wagner Herbert M. Turner III 156

12 Charter Schools in New York's Black Communities: Managing Resources in Local Organizational Fields Luis A. Huerta Bruce Fuller Lynette Parker Chad d'Entremont 173

13 When Community Control Meets Privatization: The Search for Empowerment in African American Charter Schools Janelle T. Scott 191

14 Closed: Competition, Segregation, and the Black Student Experience in Charter Schools David R. Garcia Monica L. Stigler 205

15 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 217

Part IV Race and the Contemporary Education of African American Children: Theoretical and Policy Issues 221

16 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 222

17 The Changing Landscape: Enhancing the Public School Option for Black Youth Lara Perez-Felkner E.C. Hedberg Barbara Schneider 234

18 Where Should African American Parents Send Their Children to School? Disentangling Schools' Racial Composition from Students' Financial Resources Jelani Mandara Inez Moore Scott Richman Fatima Varner 255

19 Visible Now? Black Educational Choices for the Few, the Desperate, and the Far Between Howard C. Stevenson Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe Edith G. Arrington Deborah J. Johnson 268

About the Editors and Contributors 275

Index 281

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