Theresa Perry: 4 books
Young, Gifted and Black
Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Young, Gifted, and Black is a unique joint effort by three leading African-American scholars to radically reframe the debates swirling around the achievement of African-American students in school.
In three separate but allied essays, Theresa Perry, Claude Steele, and Asa Hilliard place students'...
Quality Education as a Constitutional Right
Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
In 2005, famed civil rights leader and education activist Robert Moses invited one hundred prominent African American and Latino intellectuals and activists to meet to discuss a proposal for a** campaign **to guarantee a quality education for all children as a constitutional right—a movement that...
Can We Talk about Race?
And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
**Major new reflections on race and schools—by the best-selling author of “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?“
A Simmons College/Beacon Press Race, Education, and Democracy Series Book**
Beverly Daniel Tatum emerged on the national scene in 1997 with...
Youth, Critical Literacies, and Civic Engagement
Arts, Media, and Literacy in the Lives of Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Through stories of youth using their many voices in and out of school to explore and express their ideas about the world, this book brings to the forefront the reality of lived literacy experiences of adolescents in today’s culture in which literacy practices reflect important cultural messages...