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Volume 2 Issue 1 December 2004

 
General Articles

Research Articles and Reports

Best Practices

Poster Sessions

Book Reviews

Calendar

Special Theme Issue

Promoting Academic Achievement for African American Students in Kindergarten to Twelfth Grade (K-12) Urban Settings: Implications for Teachers, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, and Administrators

Guest Editors

Chance W. Lewis and James L. Moore, III 

Acknowledgement of Reviewers for this Special Theme Issue
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African American Students in Kindergarten to Twelfth Grade (K-12) Urban Settings (Chance W. Lewis and James L. Moore, III)  Web Page   PDF File

Table of Contents


General Articles

Reflecting on the Gap: What can the implementation of an Urban High School Counseling Project teach us about the Achievement Gap?
(Alan Green, Jacqueline Conley, Kim Barnett, and Eric Benjamin)  Web Page   
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Research Articles and Reports

Administrators’ and Teachers’ Work in a New Age of Reform: Understanding the Factors for African American Students’ Success (Floyd Beachum, Audrey Dentith, and Carlos McCray)   Web Page   PDF File

An Exploratory Phenomenological Study of African American High School Students in Gifted Education Programs: Implications for Teachers and School Counselors (Lamont A. Flowers, Yanmei Zhang, James L. Moore, III, and Tiffany Flowers)   Web Page   PDF File  

African American and White American Students’ Beliefs about Ethnic Groups’ Aspirations: A Paradoxical Dilemma of Academic versus Athletic Pursues (Joe W. Burden, Jr., Samuel R. Hodge, and Louis Harrison, Jr.)  
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Partnerships at an Urban High School: Meeting the Parent Requirements of No Child Left Behind (Mavis G. Sanders and Karla Lewis)   Web Page   PDF File

A Synthesis of Evidence-Based Research on the Status of African American Teachers 50 Years after Brown and its impact on African American Student Achievement: Implications for Teachers and Administrators (Chance W. Lewis, Dorothy Garrison-Wade, Malcolm Scott, Bruce Douglas, and Valerie Middleton)  Web Page   PDF File

The Use of a Benchmark Assessment to Track Progress of a Reading Intervention: A Pilot Study of an Urban Elementary School (Tiffany A. Jenkins, Antoinette H. Miranda, and Valerie E. Cook)  Web Page   PDF File

The Trials and Tribulations of African American Students in an Urban Educational Setting: A Case Study Analysis of a School Social Worker’s Perceptions   (Jacquelyn Monroe)  Web Page   PDF File

Best Practices

Group Mentoring with Urban African American Female Adolescents (Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy)  Web Page   PDF File

Poster Sessions


Book Reviews

Ginwright, S. A. (2004). Black in school: Afrocentric reform, urban reform, and the promise of hip-hop culture. Columbia, NY: Teachers College Press. (Reviewed by Troy D. Allen)  Web Page   PDF File

Ogbu, J. U. (2003). Black American students in an affluent suburb: A study of academic disengagement.  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (Reviewed by Glenda Allen-Jones)  Web Page   PDF File

Martin, D. B. (2000). Mathematics success and failure among African-American youth: The roles of sociohistorical context, community forces, school influence, and individual agency. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (Reviewed by Bruce B. Douglas)  Web Page   PDF File

Irvine, J. J. (2003). Educating teachers for diversity: Seeing with a cultural eye. Columbia, NY: Teachers College Press. (Reviewed by Adrian Henderson)  Web Page   PDF File

Siddle-Walker, V. & Snarey, J. R. (2004). Race-ing moral formation: African American perspectives on care and justice. Columbia, NY: Teachers College Press. (Reviewed by Kimberly Hendry)  Web Page   PDF File

Sanders, M. G. (2000). Schooling students placed at risk: Research, policy, and practice in the education of poor and minority adolescents. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (Reviewed by Malik Henfield)  Web Page   PDF File

Dimitriadis, G. (2003). Friendship, cliques, and gangs—Young Black men coming of age in urban America. Columbia, NY: Teachers College Press. (Reviewed by Erik Hines)  Web Page   PDF File

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. (Reviewed by Julie Landsman)  Web Page   PDF File

Noguera, P. (2003). City schools and the American dream: Reclaiming the promise of public education. Columbia, NY: Teachers College Press.  (Reviewed by Melissa Rulong)  Web Page   PDF File


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