Educating Our Black Children

Abstract

1. 50 Years of Failure: 'Race' and Education Policy in Britain David Gillborn 2. The Education of Black Children: Why do Some Schools do Better than Others? M. Blair 3. Academic Disidentification: Unravelling Underachievement among Black Boys Jason W. Osborne 4. The African-centred Worldview - Developing Effective Educational Strategies to Enhance the Development and Achievement of Young People of African Descent Mekada J. Graham 5. Lessons from America: The African American Immersion Schools Experiment Diane S. Pollard and Cheryl S. Ajiortutu 6. Black Supplementary Schools: Spaces of Radical Blackness Dr Diane Reay and Dr Heidi Safia Mirza 7. The Exclusions of Black Children: Implications for a Racialised Perspective Richard Majors, David Gillborn and Tony Sewell 8. Educational Psychology, Equal Opportunities and Exclusions: Towards a New Framework Karl Brooks and Denny Grant 9. Black Exclusions in Moral Vacuum Richard Harris and Carl Parsons 10. Enhancing Achievement in Adolescent Black Males: The Rites of Passage Link Keith A. Alford, Patrick McKenry and Stephen M. Gavazzi 11. An After School Manhood Development Program Aminifu Harvey 12. Black Boys at School: Negotiating Masculinities and Race James Davis 13. Black Boys and Schooling: An Intervention Framework for Solving the Dilemmas of Masculinity, Identity and Underachievement Tony Sewell 14. Mentoring Black Males: Responding to the Crisis in Education and Social Alienation Richard Majors, Vince Wilkinson and Bill Gulam 15. School Based Mentoring for Minority Youth: Program Components and Evaluation Strategies Teresa Garate-Serafini, Fabricio E. Balcazar, Christopher B. Keys and Julie Weitlauf