Race and Education: The Roles of History and Society in Educating African American Students - Softcover

This text is comprised of fifteen in-depth, research-based essays in which noted educators discuss the history, politics, challenges and progress of the education of African Americans. Race and Education promotes culturally sensitive, developmentally appropriate and individually supportive learning environments. This text brings together the contemporary thinking of leading scholars who believe that the achievement of African American children will be improved best by the understanding of the history of African American education and the direction in which it is headed.