Black Educational Choice: Assessing the Private and Public Alternatives to Traditional K–12 Public Schools

Black Educational Choice: Assessing the Private and Public Alternatives to Traditional K–12 Public Schools
ISBN-10
0313393842
ISBN-13
9780313393846
Category
Education
Pages
306
Language
English
Published
2011-11-08
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Authors
Howard C. Stevenson, Deborah J. Johnson, Diana T. Slaughter-Kotzin

Description

This important book provides African American parents with the knowledge to diversify K–12 school choices beyond traditional neighborhood public schools in order to optimize the educational chances of their own children, and it will help educators and policymakers to close the black-white academic achievement gap throughout America. Closing the K–12 achievement gap is critical to the future welfare of African American individuals, families, and communities—and to the future of our nation as a whole. The black-white academic achievement gap—the significant statistical difference in academic performance between African American students and their white peers—is the single greatest impediment to achieving racial equality and social justice in America. Black Educational Choice provides parents, citizens, educators, and policymakers the critical knowledge they need to leverage the national trend toward increasing and diversifying K–12 school choice beyond traditional neighborhood public schools. Parents can use this information to optimize the success of their own African American children, while policymakers and educators can apply these insights to help close the black-white academic achievement gap throughout America. The book collects the interdisciplinary, multi-racial, and multi-ethnic perspectives of education experts to address the questions of millions of anxious African American families: "Would sending our children to a private school or a charter school significantly better their chances of closing the achievement gap and becoming successful individuals? And if so, what kinds of challenges would they likely experience in these alternative educational settings?"

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