Educating African American Students

Abul Pitre is the former Carter G. Woodson Professor of education at Edinoboro University of Pennsylvania. Currently he is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Fayetteville State University where he teaches doctoral courses in educational leadership.Esrom Pitre is an associate principal at Donaldsonville High School. His areas of research are African American males in special education and multicultural education with a focus on racial issues as it relates to African American students.Ruth Ray is the department chair at Louisiana State University, Shreveport where she teaches courses in Educational Leadership. Her major research interest is the impact of zero tolerance policy on African American students.Twana Hilton-Pitre is the director of field experiences at Louisiana State University, Shreveport. Her areas of expertise include counseling, multicultural education, and elementary education.

Educating African American Students couldn't be timelier. As we prepare students for success in the twenty-first century, the curriculum that we present must reflect the strengths and accomplishments of all groups. We must eradicate the achievement gap and to do so means to seriously consider the obstacles to achievement experienced by specific cultural groups and then to do all that is necessary to remove those obstacles.

• Chapter 1 ForewordPart 2 IntroductionChapter 3 The Culture of Death: The African American Child and SchoolingPart 4 FoundationsChapter 5 A Historical Analysis of Black Education: The Impact of Desegregation on African AmericansChapter 6 The Context of African American Education PerformanceChapter 7 African American Students Achieving Academic Success: The Need for Knowledge of SelfPart 8 CurriculumChapter 9 The Social Studies Curriculum and African American StudentsChapter 10 Increasing the Level of Mathematics Achievement in African American Male AdolescentsChapter 11 Overrepresentation of African American Males in Special Education: An Examination of the Referral Process in the K-12 Public School SettingPart 12 Experiences: African American Students in SchoolChapter 13 African American Males in Urban SchoolsChapter 14 The Experiences of African American Males in Special EducationChapter 15 The Challenge of Implementing Black History: Student Narratives of a Black History ProgramChapter 16 The Conspicuously Unnoticed: High-Achieving African American Mathematics Students in Schools Deemed Academically UnacceptableChapter 17 Counseling African American Girls in a White School Setting