African-American academic achievement in middle school

Resources for use in promoting African-American academic achievement in middle school

Magazines

• Teaching Tolerance Magazine you can subscribe to via email
• American Educator - You can search for relevant articles

Organizations

Teaching Tolerance, The Teaching Diverse Students Initiative, is dedicated to reducing prejudice, improving intergroup relations and supporting equitable school experiences. Explore their website starting here.
Their website provides:

• Learning Resources
  
• Professional development content
  
• Professional development practices for teachers
• Teaching Tolerance Magazine you can subscribe to via email
• Resources that focus particularly on African American issues - developed by Jacqueline Jordan Irvine
• Tools
• References
  

Websites

• Strategies for Teaching Science to African American Students - Hosted by West Virginia University (Last updated: April 22, 2005)

Books

Practice

• Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School (2006). Edited by Mica Pollock
  
• Thompson, G. (2004).Through Ebony Eyes: What Teachers Need to Know but are Afraid to Ask About African American Students. San Francisco, CA:Jossey Bass.
• Thompson, G. L. (in press). The Power of One: How You Can Help or Harm African American Students. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
• Thompson, G. L. (2007). Up Where We Belong: Helping African American and Latino Students Rise in School and Life.San Francisco:Jossey Bass.
• Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools (2006) by Glenn Eric Singleton and Curtis Linton
• Educating African American males: voices from the field by Olatokunbo S. Fashola
• From rage to hope : strategies for reclaiming Black & Hispanic students (2004) by Crystal Kuykendall
• The Black-White Achievement Gap: Why Closing It Is the Greatest Civil Rights Issue of Our Time (2010) by Dr. Rod Paige, Dr. Elaine Witty
• No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning (2004) by Abigail Thernstrom, Stephan Thernstrom
• Thompson, G. (2003).What African American Parents Want Educators to Know. Westport, Connecticut:Greenwood Publishers, Praeger.
• Black Students/Middle Class Teachers (2002) by Jawanza Kunjufu
• Learning while Black: creating educational excellence for African American Students (2001) by Janice E. Hale
• Achievement for African American Students: Strategies for the Diverse Classroom (1995) by Gary Reglin
• Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement Among African American Students by Theresa Perry, Asa G. Hilliard, Claude Steele. Review in Education Review
• Improving Schools for African American Students: A Reader for Educational Leaders (2002) Edited by Sheryl J. Denbo and Lynson Moore Beaulieu
• Educating teachers for diversity: seeing with a cultural eye (2003) by Jacqueline Jordan Irvine
• Black Students and School Failure. Policies, Practices, and Prescriptions (1990) by Irvine, Jacqueline Jordan. Review - Choice - This text is 20 years old, but the concepts may still hold true.
• Thompson, G. (2002). African American Teens Discuss Their Schooling Experiences. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishers, Bergin & Garvey.
• Thompson, G. L. (2007). The Truth About Black Students and Standardized Tests: What School Leaders Should Know. Leadership.
• Thompson, G. (2007). Improving the Schooling Experiences of African American Students: What School Leaders and Teachers Can Do. In H. Walberg & S. Paik (Eds.) Minority Children and Youth: Schools, Families, Communities, and Learning. Springer.

Theory

• Black American students in an affluent suburb: a study of academic disengagement by John U. Ogbu. Review in Education Review; Review in Journal of College Student Development; Review in Black Issues in Higher Education
• Mathematics success and failure among African-American youth (2000) by Danny Bernard Martin
• Ethnomathematics: challenging eurocentrism in mathematics education (1997) by Arthur B. Powell, Marilyn Frankenstein. Review in Radical Statistics Articles (2003)
• Watkins A.P. (2006, March).The Pedagogy of African American Parents: Learning From Educational Excellence in the African American community.Current Issues in Education9(7). Available: http://cie.ed.asu.edu/volume9/number7

Articles

• Thompson, G. (2004). Playing God With Other People’s Children: an Introduction to a guest edited issue of the High School Journal. 87(3), 1-4.
• Thompson, G., Warren, S. & Carter, L. (2004). It’s Not My Fault: Predicting High School Teachers Who Blame Parents and Students for Students’ Low Achievement. The High School Journal. 87(3).
• The Truth About Students of Color and Standardized Tests [doc]. (2007) by Gail L. Thompson
  
• Gutierrez, R., Bay-Williams, J., & Kanold, T. (2008, October). Beyond Access and Achievement: Equity Issues for Mathematics Teachers and Leaders. NCTM News Bulletin
• Are You Biased? by Caralee Adams, published in Scholastic Administrator

Other places to find Relevant Resources

• Articles on Equity from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• Books and Journal Articles by Dr. Gail Thompson