Teacher education and Black communities : implications for access, equity, and achievement / edited by Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz (Teachers College, Columbia University,) Chance W. Lewis (The University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Ivory Toldson (Howard University).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sealey-Ruiz, Yolanda, editor.

Lewis, Chance W. (Chance Wayne), 1972- editor.

Toldson, Ivory L., editor.

Series:

Contemporary perspectives on access, equity, and achievement.

Contemporary Perspectives on Access, Equity, and Achievement

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American teachers--Training of.

African American teachers.

African American teachers--In-service training.

Teachers--Training of--United States.

Teachers.

African Americans--Education.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, North Carolina : Information Age Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The field of education has been and will continue to be essential to the survival and sustainability of the Black community. Unfortunately, over the past five decades, two major trends have become clearly evident in the Black community: (a) the decline of the academic achievement levels of Black students and (b) the disappearance of Black teachers, particularly Black males. Today, of the 3.5 million teachers in America's classrooms (AACTE, 2010) only 8% are Black teachers, and approximately 2% of these teachers are Black males (NCES, 2010). Over the past few decades, the Black teaching force in the U.S. has dropped significantly (Lewis, 2006; Lewis, Bonner, Byrd, & James, 2008; Milner & Howard, 2004), and this educational crisis shows no signs of ending in the near future. As the population of Black students in K-12 schools in the U. S. continue to rise--currently over 16% of students in America's schools are Black (NCES, 2010)--there is an urgent need to increase the presence of Black educators.The overall purpose of this edited volume is to stimulate thought and discussion among diverse audiences (e.g., policymakers, practitioners, and educational researchers) who are concerned about the performance of Black students in our nation's schools, and to provide evidence-based strategies to expand our nation's pool of Black teachers. To this end, it is our hope that this book will contribute to the teacher education literature and will inform the teacher education policy and practice debate.

Contents:

Foreword: Teacher education and the black communities / Gloria Ladson-Billings

Acknowledgements

Introduction / Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Chance W. Lewis

Part I: Preparing teachers to teach black students

Chapter 1. Preparing teachers to teach black students: A story about a journey to teaching excellence / Suzanne C. Carothers

Chapter 2. Insights for future educators on promoting nonresident black father involvement in schools, increasing black student achievement, and advancing equity in education / Brianna P. Lemmons

Chapter 3. Making space for black queer teachers: Pedagogic possibilities / Lance T. McCready and Micia Mosely

Chapter 4. New visions of collective achievement: The cross-generational schooling experiences of African American males / Darrell Cleveland Hucks

Chapter 5. Young scholars: African American males and academic identity development / Robert W. Simmons, III, Cheryl Moore-Thomas, and Audra Watson

Chapter 6. Invisible hands seeing and noticing black and latino male youth / Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Keisha Allen and Erik Nolan

Chapter 7. Not strangers: How social distance influences black male teachers' perceptions of their male students of color / Travis J. Bristol

Part II: Preparing black students to become teachers

Chapter 8. Teachers and teaching for the new millennium / Jacqueline Jordan Irvine and Leslie T. Fenwick

Chapter 9. Mending the pipeline: Recruitment and retention of African American preservice teachers in a predominantly white institution / David A. Byrd and Shailen M. Singh

Chapter 10. Human capital investment: Supporting the development of visionary change agents in teacher preparation programs for urban schools and communities / Derrick Robinson, Ayana Allen, and Chance W. Lewis

Chapter 11. An evaluation of an in-house coaching pilot study within the institute of education, university of London: 20-20 coaching tda project for the recruitment and retention of black minority ethnic student teachers / Victoria Showunmi

Chapter 12. Bad boys to master teachers: Hip hop culture and the making of black male teacher identity / Thurman Bridges

Chapter 13. The legacy lives, I leave you a thirst for education: Dr. Bethune's vision in action: A study of the impact of an hbcu on teachers and educational leaders / Tehia Starker Glass, Helena Mariella-Walrond, Allyson Leggett Watson, and Lakia M. Scott

Part III: Implications for access, equity, and achievement

Chapter 14. The contextual factor of race in equity, access, and achievement / Marvin Lynn

Chapter 15. Equity in opportunities to learn mathematics: Policy and practice implications for high-achieving black students / Kenneth Alonzo Anderson

Chapter 16. Using observation prompts in the urban elementary school field placement / Felicia Moore Mensah

Chapter 17. Collateral damage in the classroom: How race and school environment influence teachers' attitudes and behaviors toward their students / Ivory A. Toldson and Mercedes E. Ebanks

Chapter 18. Epilogue: Teacher education and black communities / H. Richard Milner, IV

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About the contributors.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

1-62396-699-X

OCLC:

882265037