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A Case Study of the Perspectives of Black Children's Parents Regarding Their Role in Addressing the Achievement Gap

Author : Jennifer Lona Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book A Case Study of the Perspectives of Black Children's Parents Regarding Their Role in Addressing the Achievement Gap written by Jennifer Lona Harris and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this qualitative, collective case study was to understand the perspectives of Black children's parents regarding their roles in addressing the Black student achievement gap in their Virginia school district. For this study, the achievement gap referred to the disparity of academic performance between Black and White students. The theories guiding this study were social constructivism and social equity as they both support understanding the world based on participants' experiences. The research questions are as follows: (1) What do parents of Black children identify as their roles in their children's education? (2) How do parents of Black children perceive the effect that their involvement has on their children's academic success or failure? (3) What additional support do parents of Black children need to facilitate better learning for their children? This study was bound to a Virginia school district, and the sample was composed of 12 participants from 2 schools: Harris Middle School and Sims High School. The data collection process included individual interviews, a focus group, and a historical document analysis provided by the school. Data analysis was conducted using pattern matching logic and consisted of coding, memoing, and transcripts interpretation. The study's findings indicated that parents largely believe that the burden of education lies within the schools. Additionally, parents feel that as their student reaches the end of middle school, the child should be held to higher accountability for their success. By performing this study, I offered a better understanding of Black parents' perception regarding their specific roles in addressing the minority achievement gap.

Every Closed Eye Ain't Sleep

Author : Teresa Hill
Publisher : R&L Education
ISBN 13 : 1610481062
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Every Closed Eye Ain't Sleep written by Teresa Hill and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2011-07-16 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Closed Eye Ain't Sleep: African American Perspectives on the Achievement Gap examines the origins and perpetuation of the achievement gap from the perspective of the African American community. Instead of accepting the achievement gap as an inevitable matter of fact, Every Closed Eye Ain't Sleep questions the fundamental beliefs that perpetuate the gap. Drawing on dialogue with African American community members, Teresa Hill advances a framework for understanding a predominant African American view of the educational process. She then juxtaposes this framework with the norms perpetrated by the educational establishment to demonstrate how disagreements about the roles and responsibilities of parents, teachers and students affect community members' experiences in schools. Every Closed Eye Ain't Sleep opens a dialogue about the achievement gap on different terms, analyzes the gap as an issue of social justice, and provides educational leaders and policymakers with ways to engage in the productive dialogue necessary to improve education for African American children.

Naming, Framing, and Claiming the Gap

Author : Michelle Joy Walker-Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Naming, Framing, and Claiming the Gap written by Michelle Joy Walker-Davis and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are aware of disparities in education but don't think or talk about the achievement gap in the same way as is dominant in public discourse. The parents acknowledge many reasons why children don't do well and have something to say about what should done and by whom. Their engagement in their children's schooling experience, whether visible or not (especially if not), is a form of resistance and advocacy, and they want and need to be part of a larger movement to amplify their collective voice. This study is intended to provide guidance to leaders and decision-makers in SPPS as the district develops, implements, or redesigns programs, policies, and practices aimed at eliminating racial disparities in student achievement. In particular, I recommend that careful and ongoing exploration of Black parent perspectives and behaviors would be useful to the district's efforts to address the achievement gap.

Strengthening the Voice of Arican American Parents

Author : John Peter Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Strengthening the Voice of Arican American Parents written by John Peter Collins and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Narrowing the Achievement Gap

Author : William Alfred Sampson
Publisher : R&L Education
ISBN 13 : 1610489497
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Narrowing the Achievement Gap written by William Alfred Sampson and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While it is quite clear that black and Latino students in general, and poor black and poor Latino students in particular do not do as well as white students in school, the road to real solutions to this very important and vexing problem is far from clear. Some champion vouchers and charter schools as the ideal solution, despite strong data suggesting that neither is particularly effective. Others point to smaller classes. Increasingly scholars and politicians support more accountability on the part of teachers, despite the reality that teachers do not have a great deal of control over much that influences performance. This book addresses the various “solutions”, and suggests that any solution to the gap that ignores the role of families is limited at best, and misguided at worst. The book details an effort to help poor black and poor Latino families learn to do the things necessary to help their children to do better in school, and argues that this family centered approach, while complicated, should be considered along side the school centered efforts.

Black Diamonds Create Black Brilliance

Author : Tasha Latrese Alston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (979 download)

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Download or read book Black Diamonds Create Black Brilliance written by Tasha Latrese Alston and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT African American children continue to underachieve academically and the academic achievement gap between African American students, Latino students and White students continues to persist. America is also becoming significantly more diverse and by 2020 America's classrooms will be filled with more students of color. If the achievement gap continues to persist and if students of color do not receive the necessary education to compete in the global workforce then America will eventually have a future workforce problem. The literature tells us that parental involvement affects academic achievement. However, much of the literature on parental involvement focuses on the involvement of mother's with limited information about the involvement of fathers, especially African American fathers. When fathers are included in the literature on parental involvement, they are usually White and middle class. The parental involvement literature on African American fathers is insufficient compared to their White counterparts. African American fathers do not have a "voice" in the literature on parental involvement. In fact, a racial and gender bias exists in the literature on parental involvement that marginalizes the voice of African American fathers. The purpose of this study is to understand the involvement that African American fathers have in their African American children's education by using Critical Race Theory (hereafter referred to as CRT) as a theoretical framework to privilege the "voice" of African American fathers within the literature on parental involvement. The goal of this study is to better understand African American fathers involvement in their African American children's education in order to determine how to better engage African American fathers as partners in education. During this qualitative study interviews were conducted to privilege the "voice" of African American fathers through their counterstories. Findings revealed African American fathers are involved in their children's education, but not in the school.

Preparing Educators to Engage Families

Author : Heather B. Weiss
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483321576
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Preparing Educators to Engage Families written by Heather B. Weiss and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constant changes in education are creating new and uncertain roles for parents and teachers that must be explored, identified, and negotiated. Preparing Educators to Engage Families: Case Studies Using an Ecological Systems Framework, Third Edition encourages readers to hone their analytic and problem-solving skills for use in real-world situations with students and their families. Organized according to Ecological Systems Theory (of the micro, meso, exo, macro, and chrono systems), this completely updated Third Edition presents research-based teaching cases that reflect critical dilemmas in family-school-community relations, especially among families for whom poverty and cultural differences are daily realities. The text looks at family engagement issues across the full continuum, from the early years through pre-adolescence. NEW TO THIS EDITION The text addresses bold and exciting new directions in the field of family engagement in education, including the explosive growth of digital media and learning, the investment in student performance data systems, the focus on personalized student learning, and the need for systemic—rather than "random acts"—of family engagement. New theoretical perspectives on early childhood education and family engagement speak to issues of quality learning settings and school readiness.

Handbook on Promoting Social Justice in Education

Author : Rosemary Papa
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783030146245
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Handbook on Promoting Social Justice in Education written by Rosemary Papa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2020-02-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook on Promoting Social Justice in Education explores social justice elements across the global human continuum in the field of education and offers the skills and ways of thinking to achieve a more equitable, caring and fair world. Education is not the sole or even the primary answer to social justice as this would assume educators have control over the complexity of one’s nation/states and multi or transnational organizations, and especially the diversity by context of family life. What education does offer are the skills and ways of thinking to achieve a more equitable, caring, and fair world in pursuit of achieving the ends of social justice. The handbook will look at three major themes—Political Inequality, Educational Economic Inequality, and Cultural Inequality. Editorial Board Khalid ArarKadir BeyciogluFenwick EnglishAletha M. HarvenJohn M. HeffronDavid John MathesonMarta Sánchez

Closing the Gap

Author : Tanya Foster-DeMers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Closing the Gap written by Tanya Foster-DeMers and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this ex post facto study was to investigate the use of the Instructional At- Home Plan (IAHP)® by African American parents and its impact on kindergarten literacy achievement among their children. The study used DIBELS data from students who attended a Chicago Public School with a population that averaged 98.6% black and 96.75% low-income status. Parents of students who attended classes for the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years utilized the Instructional At-Home Plan. The achievement of their children was analyzed and compared to those students who attended kindergarten for the 2007-08 and 2008-09 school years: students whose parents did not utilize the IAHP. The overall findings reveal statistically significant improvements at the middle and end of the year when the IAHP was used. The percent of students categorized as green, a score at grade level and above, at the end of the year rose by more than 50%. The percent of students categorized as yellow, a score below grade level and requiring strategic intervention, dropped by almost two-thirds. The percent of students categorized as red, a score below grade level and requiring intensive intervention, dropped by more than 50%. The study suggests that African American parents are willing and able to become successfully involved in their children's education through the use of a specific parent involvement tool, the Instructional At-Home Plan. It is expected that future studies will confirm even more strongly IAHP's ability to integrate early childhood knowledge with parent involvement as a means to reduce achievement gaps.

Family Life and School Achievement

Author : Reginald M. Clark
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022622144X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Family Life and School Achievement written by Reginald M. Clark and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working mothers, broken homes, poverty, racial or ethnic background, poorly educated parents—these are the usual reasons given for the academic problems of poor urban children. Reginald M. Clark contends, however, that such structural characteristics of families neither predict nor explain the wide variation in academic achievement among children. He emphasizes instead the total family life, stating that the most important indicators of academic potential are embedded in family culture. To support his contentions, Clark offers ten intimate portraits of Black families in Chicago. Visiting the homes of poor one- and two-parent families of high and low achievers, Clark made detailed observations on the quality of home life, noting how family habits and interactions affect school success and what characteristics of family life provide children with "school survival skills," a complex of behaviors, attitudes, and knowledge that are the essential elements in academic success. Clark's conclusions lead to exciting implications for educational policy. If school achievement is not dependent on family structure or income, parents can learn to inculcate school survival skills in their children. Clark offers specific suggestions and strategies for use by teachers, parents, school administrators, and social service policy makers, but his work will also find an audience in urban anthropology, family studies, and Black studies.

African American Parent Perspectives on Positive Relationships with Their Children's Teachers

Author : Angela Montpas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book African American Parent Perspectives on Positive Relationships with Their Children's Teachers written by Angela Montpas and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite research that suggests that improved relationships between African American parents and their children's teachers may be effective in supporting better academic outcomes, few studies have been conducted from the perspectives of African American parents. To address this gap in the literature, this study examined the research question: How are positive parent-teacher relationships characterized by African American parents? To address this research question, I relied on a qualitative, grounded theory approach in combination with Black feminist epistemology as the conceptual framework as a way to privilege the voices of African American parents. Open-ended interviews provided data on ways that 13 African American parents characterize positive relationships with up to five of their children's teachers for a total of 20 teacher descriptions. I analyzed the data using the constant comparative method and addressed validity via member checks. Teachers with whom the parents had positive relationships: a) connected with parents, b) cared for the child, c) had a shared commitment to the success of the child, d) stayed focused on learning, and e) effectively communicated. The study advances a theory of African American family positive relationships with teachers.

Class and Schools

Author : Richard Rothstein
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807745564
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Class and Schools written by Richard Rothstein and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary public policy assumes that the achievement gap between black and white students could be closed if only schools would do a better job. According to Richard Rothstein, "Closing the gaps between lower-class and middle-class children requires social and economic reform as well as school improvement. Unfortunately, the trend is to shift most of the burden to schools, as if they alone can eradicate poverty and inequality." In this book, Rothstein points the way toward social and economic reforms that would give all children a more equal chance to succeed in school. This book features: a summary of numerous studies linking school achievement to health care quality, nutrition, childrearing styles, housing stability, parental economic security, and more ; aA look at erroneous and misleading data that underlie commonplace claims that some schools "beat the demographic odds and therefore any school can close the achievement gap if only it adopted proper practices." ; and an analysis of how the over-emphasis of standardized tests in federal law obscures the true achievement gap and makes narrowing it more difficult.

The Space Between

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Space Between written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a continued and recently growing difference in achievement between African American and White students and between African American boys and their female peers, attention is re-focusing on parents as agents of positive change. No Child Left Behind calls on schools to reduce inter-group achievement gaps in part by making parents instruments of their children's success. However, to effectively engage parents in their children's education and reduce the achievement gap, we must understand better the nature and effects of parental engagement and how the construct, as it is enacted, may differ across family race and child gender. With data for African American and White parents of boys and girls from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Kindergarten Class, this study tests, via structural equation modeling, a multidimensional conceptualization of parental engagement, its predictors, and its effects. Confirmatory factor analysis results support a five-factor, behavioral conceptualization of parental engagement for African American and White parents of boys and girls & mdash;each factor representing a role parents play when engaging in their children's learning: Resource Agent, Manager, Teacher, Encourager, and Relational Advocate. Parent-related constraints (such as socioeconomic status and education) was the strongest negative predictor of parental engagement and parental expectations across all groups, while school-related constraints (parent perceptions of school and teacher efforts to inform and engage them) was a particularly strong negative predictor of parental engagement for African American parents of girls only. Logistical constraints (such as inconvenient meeting times) and parental expectations were weak predictors of actual parental engagement for all four groups. For African American and White boys and girls alike, parental engagement was a moderate, positive predictor of their classroom effort, while parental engagement and effort were both strong, positive predictors of kindergarteners' cognitive performance. Results of latent mean analyses suggest that African American parents tend to engage less in their children's education than White parents. Nevertheless, while African American and White parents experience similar levels of school-related and logistical constraints, African American parents experience far more parent-related constraints than White parents, possibly explaining this racial gap in engagement. Implications of these findings for policy, research, and practice are discussed.

What African American Parents Want Educators to Know

Author : Gail L. Thompson
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book What African American Parents Want Educators to Know written by Gail L. Thompson and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2003-05-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of African American parents/guardians raising school-age children and their views on the value of education and the American public school system.

Black Children of Incarcerated Parents Speak Truth to Power

Author : Britany Jenine Gatewood
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000982025
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Black Children of Incarcerated Parents Speak Truth to Power written by Britany Jenine Gatewood and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book centers directly impacted Black children who have lived through parental incarceration. Their stories are told from holistic perspectives incorporating the full range of collateral consequences. Shifting from the Eurocentric and capitalistic viewpoint, they move us beyond negative outcomes to a positive prism by providing insider perspective, strategy, advice, and compelling experiences. We center Black children of incarcerated parents’ (BCOIP’s) rich narratives to show how they are conscious thinkers with perspectives that can help reimagine all Black children’s lives and futures. These stories help readers better understand the importance of exploring the revolutionary ways BCOIP continue to survive, thrive, and transform amid the dynamic challenges surrounding mass incarceration. The book shifts the social dialogue from fear of intergenerational crime and incarceration to resilience, success, Black joy, and self-love, and moves from sympathetic into an empathetic agenda. The book brings to the forefront counter-storytelling through oral narratives that fill a gap in literature that leaves out the voices of children of incarcerated parents who are doctors, lawyers, professional athletes, musicians, community leaders, activists, professors, teachers, bestselling authors, and much more. These are vital experiences to share because not all BCOIP will end up in prison, jail, or a detention center. Black Children of Incarcerated Parents Speak Truth to Power will be of great interest to scholars from the humanistic social sciences and humanities. It is also a timely resource for students (high school, undergraduate, and graduate) in sociology, criminology, corrections, humanities, social work, counseling, education, social justice, and related courses, as well as agency administrators, community organizations servicing families of the incarcerated, specifically incarcerated parents and the children of incarcerated parents, themselves.

How African American Parents' Perspectives Improve Our Schools for African American Children

Author : Roxanne D. Glawe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book How African American Parents' Perspectives Improve Our Schools for African American Children written by Roxanne D. Glawe and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This capstone analyzes African American parents' perspectives of what is happening to their children in schools. These perspectives can guide teachers and administrators in providing equitable education for African American children. The author was motivated to pursue this project from her experiences as an urban teacher and from the experiences her own African American child endured in two urban schools. In the review of literature, James Comer, Beatrice Fennimore, Asa Hilliard, Alfie Kohn, Jonathon Kozol, Floraline Stevens, and Belinda Williams emerged as leaders in equitable education for African American children. This study was based on interviews from parents of African American children attending an urban school district. Results concluded that parents expect teachers to have high expectations of their children, communication between school and families and teachers have cultural competence along with the implementation of strategies that motivate children and teach to the variety of learning styles children possess.

Parenting Matters

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309388570
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Parenting Matters written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States.