Richard Majors – författare

This volume highlights approaches to closing the achievement gap forstudents of color across K-12 and post-secondary schooling. It uniquelyexamines factors outside the classroom to consider how these influencestudent identity and academic performance.Teaching to Close the Achievement Gap for Students of Color offerswide-ranging chapters that explore non-curricular issues includingtrauma, family background, restorative justice, refugee experiences, andsport as determinants of student and teacher experiences in the classroom.Through rigorous empirical and theoretical engagement, chaptersidentify culturally responsive strategies for supporting students as theynavigate formal and informal educational opportunities and overcomeintersectional barriers to success. In particular, chapters highlight howthese approaches can be nurtured through teacher education, effectiveeducational leadership, and engagement across the wider community.This insightful collection will be of interest to researchers, scholars,and post-graduate students in the fields of teacher education, sociologyof education, and educational leadership.

This volume highlights approaches to closing the achievement gap forstudents of color across K-12 and post-secondary schooling. It uniquelyexamines factors outside the classroom to consider how these influencestudent identity and academic performance.Teaching to Close the Achievement Gap for Students of Color offerswide-ranging chapters that explore non-curricular issues includingtrauma, family background, restorative justice, refugee experiences, andsport as determinants of student and teacher experiences in the classroom.Through rigorous empirical and theoretical engagement, chaptersidentify culturally responsive strategies for supporting students as theynavigate formal and informal educational opportunities and overcomeintersectional barriers to success. In particular, chapters highlight howthese approaches can be nurtured through teacher education, effectiveeducational leadership, and engagement across the wider community.This insightful collection will be of interest to researchers, scholars,and post-graduate students in the fields of teacher education, sociologyof education, and educational leadership.

Exclusion and miseducation of black children is endemic in the US and UK. This book takes a long, hard look at the two countries and uncovers what they can learn from each other in their approaches to tackling this problem. The material in the book is the result of extensive work with educators, researchers and scholars working in the area of education and disaffection in the US and the UK.Richard Majors and his contributors are at the vanguard of research into this topic and this book is one of the most important titles published on the education of black children in recent times.Gathering together the issues and looking at real-world approaches, this book does not simply advance the debate: it tables some serious solutions to serious problems.This is a ground-breaking book based on cutting-edge research from writers and experts recognised the world over for their expertise. People will take note of what this book has to say.