What African American parents want educators to know /
[Book]
Gail L. Thompson
Westport, CT :
Praeger,
2003
xx, 209 pages ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-205) and index
Part 1: African American parents/guardians discuss their children and themselves: -- 1. How their children felt about school -- 2. Academic problems -- 3. Literacy issues -- 4. How African American parents/guardians assisted their children academically -- 5. Discipline, suspension, and expulsion -- -- Part 2: African American parents/guardians discuss the education system: -- 6. Beliefs about teachers -- 7. Course work and homework -- 8. Beliefs about administrators -- 9. Improving the public school system -- -- Part 3: African American parents/guardians discuss other issues: -- 10. Racism -- 11. School safety -- 12. Peer pressure and the lure of street life -- 13. College -- 14. Conclusion
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A study of African American parents/guardians raising school-age children and their views on the value of education and the American public school system
What African American parents want educators to know.
What African American parents want educators to know.