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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"African American education"”.
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The legacy of African American teachers in Jim Crow Mississippi
This study examines the educational philosophies and classroom practices of African American teachers in Mississippi prior to desegregation. The author collected the oral histories of fifteen former teachers and students from rural and urban districts across the state of Mississippi. Their …
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God's School on the Hill: Nannie Helen Burroughs and the National Training School for Women and Girls, 1909-1961
… areas that are seldom studied in the history of American education. A primary theme focuses on the role of Christianity in shaping the broad educational policy and classroom practices of an African American school. A second theme looks at the central role played by Burroughs, affording the …
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Re-conceptualizing southern rhetoric: a meta-critical perspective
… public address remains important to the study of American rhetoric and public address. However, recent years indicate a decline in the amount and variety of scholarship in this area of study. This project provides a meta-critical analysis of the history of southern rhetorical scholarship, focusing …
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Reading Achievement: The Impact of America's Choice in Kentucky's Schools
… student needs through improved curriculum and educational standards, it is still not meeting the needs of all students. Kentucky's public schools, as a whole, did not meet AYP for the school year 2004. The Kentucky School Report Card (2004) indicates Kentucky was deficient in three of the 25 …
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Education on the Underground Railroad: A Case Study of Three Communities in New York State (1820-1870)
<p>In the mid-nineteenth century a compulsory education system was emerging that allowed all children to attend public schools in northern states. This dissertation investigates school attendance rates among African American children in New York State from 1850-1870 by examining household patterns …
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Rising from the bricks: the historical development of East St. Louis State Community College, 1969-2004
… Community College of East St. Louis, a local educational institution of extreme value to the economic and educational prospects of the residents and the city of East St. Louis. It looks at the ways in which the residents of the predominantly poor, African American city of East St. Louis showed …
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From Malcolm X to Malcolm X Liberation University: a liberatory philosophy of education, Black student radicalism and Black independent educational institution building 1960-1973
… of Black Nationalism as juxtaposed to that of educational progression for African Americans during the ‘Black Power’ era. The influence of Malcolm X provoked a call for ‘African-centered schooling,’ or institutions in the traditions of self-sufficiency, self-determination, and nationalistic …
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Community informatics in STEM education: an inquiry into an out-of-school, STEM education program from the perspective of parents and youth participants
The student, Angela Slates, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2016-05-12 at 13:02.
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More than race: Differentiating Black students’ everyday experiences in Texas school desegregation, 1968-1978
… experiences. In particular, I analyze how African American students experienced the school desegregation implementation process after nearly two decades of their school districts circumventing federal orders to desegregate. Following Black students in this context led me to examine two …
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Their Story, My Story, Our Story: Oral Histories of African American Women Educators Paradoxical Navigation of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
… study explores the lives of three generations of African American women teachers in my family, my mother, Carolyn T. Sims, my aunt, Natalie T. Woods, and myself. Using Critical Race Theory (e.g., Delgado & Stefancic; 2001; Ladson-Billings & Tate, 1995; Parker, Deyhle, & Villenas, 1999) as the …
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A Knock at Midnight: A Pedagogy of Womanist Spirituality
<p>African Americans, who have a spirituality rooted in African American religious traditions, often tend to thrive in life in spite of adversities (Billingsley, 1999; Raboteau, 2001; Ross, 2003, West, 1999; Williams & Dixie, 2003). The voices of African American women, nevertheless, remain …
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Merging Identities: A Glimpse into the World of Albert Wicker, An African American Leader in New Orleans, 1893-1928
… reflects the growth of the new urban African-American middle class in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the early years of the twentieth century. He spent his career working for advances in education while using memberships in churches, Masonic groups, insurance companies, benevolent …
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Effective Strategies for Recruiting African American Males into Teacher Education Programs
… white females. From a survey reported by Education Week in 2017-2018, the teaching workforce consisted of 79.2% white teachers. The same data reported that the teaching workforce consists of 7% African-Americans (Will, 2020). From that 7% of African-Americans, African-American males …
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SOCIAL CONTEXT & ITS INFLUENCE ON PERFORMANCE IN SCHOOL
"The following study looks at the academic performance of black students and how variations in their social context can trigger high or low achievement. In order to analyze the differing outcomes in student performance, I look at their social context on the basis of 3 contextual categories: (1) …
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The Experiences of Young African American Women Principals
… designed to gain an understanding of how young African American women principals experience the principalship. Three research questions were explored in this study: (a.) What are the pathways to the principalship for young African American women? (b.) How do African American women experience the …
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The roles and experiences of Black school social workers: are they prepared to fill in the gaps for Black youth in K-12 school settings?
… economic needs, health needs, as well as educational ones within the Black communities (Bell, 2014). The purpose of this research is to understand if the responsibility to address the needs of Black students is still a high priority for Black school social workers as well as examine how …
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A Sociohistorical Analysis of the Black Church as an Educational Institution: Understanding Parishioners Engagement and Motivation to Seek Higher Education
… needs of its adult learners, and what can higher education institution learn from these practices to retain Black students while creating a more inclusive environment? While research on adult learners is plentiful, the intersection of the Black church as a lens in which to design more culturally …