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- catalog abstract "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 and black students, especially, is a driving and divisive issue. Yet the voices of prominent African-American intellectuals have been conspicuously left out of the debate about black children. Young, Gifted, and Black sets out to reframe the terms of that debate. The authors argue that understanding how children experience the struggle of being black in America is essential to improving how schools serve them. Taking on liberals and conservatives alike, Theresa Perry argues that all kinds of contemporary school settings systematically undermine motivation and achievement for black students. She draws on history, narrative, and research to outline an African-American tradition of education for liberation and to suggest what kinds of settings black children need most. Claude Steele reports stunningly clear empirical psychological evidence that when black students believe they are being judged as members of a stereotyped group rather than as individuals, they do worse on tests. He calls the mechanism at work "stereotype threat," and reflects on its broad implications for schools. Asa Hilliard ends the book with an essay on actual schools around the country where African-American students achieve at high levels.".
- catalog contributor b12635388.
- catalog contributor b12635389.
- catalog contributor b12635390.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-183).".
- catalog description "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 and black students, especially, is a driving and divisive issue. Yet the voices of prominent African-American intellectuals have been conspicuously left out of the debate about black children. Young, Gifted, and Black sets out to reframe the terms of that debate. The authors argue that understanding how children experience the struggle of being black in America is essential to improving how schools serve them. Taking on liberals and conservatives alike, Theresa Perry argues that all kinds of contemporary school settings systematically undermine motivation and achievement for black students. She draws on history, narrative, and research to outline an African-American tradition of education for liberation and to suggest what kinds of settings black children need most. Claude Steele reports stunningly clear empirical psychological evidence that when black students believe they are being judged as members of a stereotyped group rather than as individuals, they do worse on tests. He calls the mechanism at work "stereotype threat," and reflects on its broad implications for schools. Asa Hilliard ends the book with an essay on actual schools around the country where African-American students achieve at high levels.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "viii, 183 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Young, gifted, and Black.".
- catalog identifier "0807031054 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "0807031542 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Young, gifted, and Black.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Beacon Press,".
- catalog relation "Young, gifted, and Black.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "371.82996/073 21".
- catalog subject "Academic achievement United States.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Education.".
- catalog subject "Educational equalization United States.".
- catalog subject "LC2717 .P47 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Young, gifted, and Black : promoting high achievement among African-American students / Theresa Perry, Claude Steele, Asa G. Hilliard III.".
- catalog type "text".