Download or read book Homeschooling Black Children in the U S written by Khadijah Ali-Coleman and published by IAP. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2021, the United States Census Bureau reported that in 2020, during the rise of the global health pandemic COVID-19, homeschooling among Black families increased five-fold. However, Black families had begun choosing to homeschool even before COVID-19 led to school closures and disrupted traditional school spaces. Homeschooling Black Children in the US: Theory, Practice and Popular Culture offers an insightful look at the growing practice of homeschooling by Black families through this timely collection of articles by education practitioners, researchers, homeschooling parents and homeschooled children. Homeschooling Black Children in the US: Theory, Practice and Popular Culture honestly presents how systemic racism and other factors influence the decision of Black families to homeschool. In addition, the book chapters illustrate in different ways how self-determination manifests within the homeschooling practice. Researchers Khadijah Ali-Coleman and Cheryl Fields-Smith have edited a compilation of work that explores the varied experiences of parents homeschooling Black children before, during and after COVID-19. From veteran homeschooling parents sharing their practice to researchers reporting their data collected pre-COVID, this anthology of work presents an overview that gives substantive insight into what the practice of homeschooling looks like for many Black families in the United States.
Download or read book Morning by Morning written by Paula Penn-Nabrit and published by Villard. This book was released on 2003-02-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home schooling has long been regarded as a last resort, particularly by African-American families. But in this inspirational and practical memoir, Paula Penn-Nabrit shares her intimate experiences of home-schooling her three sons, Charles, Damon, and Evan. Paula and her husband, C. Madison, decided to home-school their children after racial incidents at public and private schools led them to the conclusion that the traditional educational system would be damaging to their sons’ self-esteem. This decision was especially poignant for the Nabrit family because C. Madison’s uncle was the famed civil rights attorney James Nabrit, who, with Thurgood Marshall, had argued Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court; to other members of their family, it seemed as if Paula and C. Madison were turning their backs on a rich educational legacy. But ultimately, Paula and C. Madison felt that they knew what was best for their sons. So in 1991—when Evan was nine and twins Charles and Damon were eleven—the children were withdrawn from the exclusive country day school they’d been attending. In Morning by Morning, Paula Penn-Nabrit discusses her family’s emotional transition to home schooling and shares the nuts and bolts of the boys’ educational experience. She explains how she and her husband developed a curriculum, provided adequate exposure to the arts as well as quiet time for reflection and meditation, initiated quality opportunities for volunteerism, and sought out athletic activities for their sons. At the end of each chapter, she offers advice on how readers can incorporate some of the steps her family took—even if they aren’t able to home-school; plus, there’s a website resource guide at the end of the book. Charles and Damon were eventually admitted to Princeton, and Evan attended Amherst College. But Morning by Morning is frank about the challenges the boys faced in their transition from home schooling to the college experience, and Penn-Nabrit reflects on some things she might have done differently. With great warmth and perception, Paula Penn-Nabrit discusses her personal experience and the amazing outcome of her home-schooling experience: three spiritually and intellectually well balanced sons who attended some of the top educational institutions in this country. What we learned from home schooling: -Use your time wisely. -Education is more than academics. -The idea of parent as teacher doesn’t have to end at kindergarten. -The family is our introduction to community. -Extended family is a safety net. -Yes, kids really do better in environments designed for them. -Travel is an education. -Athletics is more than competitive sports. -Get used to diversity. -It’s okay if your kids get angry at you—they’ll get over it! -from Morning by Morning From the Hardcover edition.
Download or read book Homeschooling Black Children in the U S written by Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman and published by Contemporary Perspectives on Black Homeschooling. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2021, the United States Census Bureau reported that in 2020, during the rise of the global health pandemic COVID-19, homeschooling among Black families increased five-fold. However, Black families had begun choosing to homeschool even before COVID-19 led to school closures and disrupted traditional school spaces. Homeschooling Black Children in the US: Theory, Practice and Popular Culture offers an insightful look at the growing practice of homeschooling by Black families through this timely collection of articles by education practitioners, researchers, homeschooling parents and homeschooled children. Homeschooling Black Children in the US: Theory, Practice and Popular Culture honestly presents how systemic racism and other factors influence the decision of Black families to homeschool. In addition, the book chapters illustrate in different ways how self-determination manifests within the homeschooling practice. Researchers Khadijah Ali-Coleman and Cheryl Fields-Smith have edited a compilation of work that explores the varied experiences of parents homeschooling Black children before, during and after COVID-19. From veteran homeschooling parents sharing their practice to researchers reporting their data collected pre-COVID, this anthology of work presents an overview that gives substantive insight into what the practice of homeschooling looks like for many Black families in the United States.
Download or read book African Americans and Homeschooling written by Ama Mazama and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite greater access to formal education, both disadvantaged and middle-class black students continue to struggle academically, causing a growing number of black parents to turn to homeschooling. This book is an in-depth exploration of the motivations behind black parents’ decision to educate their children at home and the strategies they’ve developed to overcome potential obstacles. Citing current issues such as culture, religion and safety, the book challenges the commonly expressed view that black parents and their children have divested from formal education by embracing homeschooling as a constructive strategy to provide black children with a valuable educational experience.
Download or read book A Place to Belong written by Amber O'Neal Johnston and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for families of all backgrounds to celebrate cultural heritage and embrace inclusivity in the home and beyond. Gone are the days when socially conscious parents felt comfortable teaching their children to merely tolerate others. Instead, they are looking for a way to authentically embrace the fullness of their diverse communities. A Place to Belong offers a path forward for families to honor their cultural heritage and champion diversity in the context of daily family life by: • Fostering open dialogue around discrimination, race, gender, disability, and class • Teaching “hard history” in an age-appropriate way • Curating a diverse selection of books and media choices in which children see themselves and people who are different • Celebrating cultural heritage through art, music, and poetry • Modeling activism and engaging in community service projects as a family Amber O’Neal Johnston, a homeschooling mother of four, shows parents of all backgrounds how to create a home environment where children feel secure in their own personhood and culture, enabling them to better understand and appreciate people who are racially and culturally different. A Place to Belong gives parents the tools to empower children to embrace their unique identities while feeling beautifully tethered to their global community.
Download or read book The Wiley Handbook of Home Education written by Milton Gaither and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wiley Handbook of Home Education is a comprehensive collection of the latest scholarship in all aspects of home education in the United States and abroad. Presents the latest findings on academic achievement of home-schooled children, issues of socialization, and legal argumentation about home-schooling and government regulation A truly global perspective on home education, this handbook includes the disparate work of scholars outside of the U.S. Typically understudied topics are addressed, such as the emotional lives of home educating mothers and the impact of home education on young adults Writing is accessible to students, scholars, educators, and anyone interested in home schooling issues
Download or read book The Brown Mama Mindset written by Muffy Mendoza and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brown Mama Mindset is a blueprint for Black moms on life, love and home. Single moms and married moms alike will find a set of parenting principles that will guide African-American moms on a journey to: Efficiently manifest your life's purpose on a timeline that is conducive to raising happy, healthy and well-rounded children. Engage in productive relationships from a place of self-love and abundance, rather than control and lack. View your home and the role of being a Brown Mama for what it really is: your own personal breeding ground for self-mastery. Rather than telling you how to be a mother, this book will help you understand that motherhood is not just about taking care of your children, it's about transforming into the woman that you are divinely destined to be.
Download or read book Exploring Single Black Mothers Resistance Through Homeschooling written by Cheryl Fields-Smith and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book expands the concept of homeplace with contemporary Black homeschooling positioned as a form of resistance among single Black mothers. Chapters explore each mother’s experience and unique context from their own perspectives in deciding to homeschool and developing their practice. It corroborates many of the issues that plague the education of Black children in America, including discipline disproportionality, frequent referrals to special education services, teachers’ low expectations, and the marginalization of Black parents as partners in traditional schools. This book demonstrates how single mothers experience the inequity in school choice policies and also provides an understanding of how single Black mothers experience home-school partnerships within traditional schools. Most importantly, this volume challenges stereotypical characterizations of who homeschools and why.
Download or read book The Homeschool Alternative written by Myiesha Taylor and published by Myiesha Taylor. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional schooling systems are proving to be suboptimal learning environments for many students of color. Black parents bear witness to the myriad of problems their children face at school and are becoming increasingly frustrated with the inability to implement positive and constructive change. Many understand the immense value an education provides and understand its empowering effects in the lives of their children. However, as traditional systems of education fail their children, they feel they have no alternatives. As a Black mother, Myiesha experienced this first-hand. As she noticed her daughter, Haley, lose her passion for learning in public school, she made the bold decision to simply pull her out and homeschool her. Homeschooling is fraught with myths and misconceptions and with this how-to guide, memoir fusion, Haley and Myiesha offer insight and enlighten readers on the "real deal" of homeschooling. Primarily that homeschooling is a mindset--a mindset that can be incorporated into all aspects of child-rearing. There are many options and opportunities to incorporate a homeschooling mindset, even if a family utilizes the public school system.
Download or read book Freedom Challenge written by Grace Llewellyn and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays written by African American homeschoolers, parents and students, telling why and how they choose to take control of their own education.
Download or read book Teach Me How To Teach My Child written by Joyce Burges and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you interested in your child? Is the education of your child a top priority? Do you know what your child knows? One more... can the mind of your child be saved? These questions should stir the minds of parents. My parents used to speak about a good education. There were few things more important. I have always had a sense of learning and enjoyed going to school-but today it is different. I believe that there is a hunger for learning among our children, our national treasures. Children have a love for learning, and it doesn't just go away easily. It must be ripped from them. They have been badly labeled, their confidence bruised, and their image marred. It is evident that this problem is not just going to go away...something must be done. I have written this book for the family who wants a better way. It is my desire that each person would follow the road to enlightenment and firmly plant their feet on that path set before them. As you are set free of this "entrapment," I hope that you find your wings and are lifted above this world.Joyce Burges
Download or read book The Homeschool Boom Pandemic Policies and Possibilities Why Parents Are Choosing to Homeschool Their Children written by Lance Izumi and published by Pacific Research Institute. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homeschooling is probably the most misunderstood school choice option. Many believe that homeschooling isolates students, is practiced by a narrow demographic, and shoulders parents with the entire responsibility for teaching their kids. The reality is that homeschooling is an incredibly diverse movement and offers a myriad of socialization opportunities for students plus a wealth of resources for homeschool parents. Thanks to the massive educational disruption brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, homeschooling has transformed from a tiny curious sideshow to a mainstream part of the education landscape. Increasing numbers of parents have found that homeschooling offers them and their children the choices, flexibility, and personalization that cannot be found in one-size-fits-all conventional schools. The Homeschool Boom highlights the wide variety of people who have decided to homeschool. They have taken the opportunities offered by technology, varied learning models, new and abundant curricular choices, and the freedom to individualize learning to educate their kids successfully outside the traditional classroom. The parents, children, and educators you'll meet reading The Homeschool Boom epitomize this new wave of homeschoolers who were dissatisfied with current direction of their children's education but made a once-unthinkable choice - the choice to educate their kids at home.
Download or read book Yes You Can written by Alisia Joy and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written with the intention to give an overview of the process of homeschooling, as well as dispel myths and instill confidence in your ability to successfully homeschool your child. There are 1.7 million children in the US that are homeschooled according to a 2016 study of that number 136,000 of those children are black. Black Homeschoolers are also said to be the fastest growing population of homeschoolers. This book is a starting point for those who are interested in learning more and gaining confidence. Part one lays the groundwork, by reviewing the history of education in the black community. While part 2 is a step-by-step guide to set up your homeschool experience.Alisia Joy Is a mother of 4 homeschooled children. She has decades of experience working in public schools and private home education environments. She is uniquely qualified to guide other families on their path to Educational Freedom.
Download or read book Black Families Online written by Stacey B. Montgomery and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Un doing School African American Homeschoolers written by Lameesa W. Muhammad and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The education of African Americans within the United States is a contemporary problem with historical roots. The struggle to achieve access, opportunity, and achievement within U.S. public, private, and charter schools remains an issue that leaves some African Americans making the decision to homeschool their children rather than leaving them in an educational system that continues to under-serve them. The purpose of this study is to gain a more in-depth understanding of the African American homeschool experience through the eyes of the parents, guardians, or caretakers who made the decision to opt out of a formal system of schooling. Specifically, this qualitative study explores through informal interviews, the self-narrated formal school and homeschool experiences of six African American women who are currently homeschooling their children after having attended a U.S. public, private, or charter school for a period of at least one academic year. This study also explores how their decision to homeschool their children relates to and reflects back upon the historical and contemporary problematic that underscores the overarching struggle which African Americans have and continue to face in attempting to gain access, opportunity, and achievement within the U.S. formal educational system. This study identified three root narratives as a result of the conversations with the participants. These roots narratives were gathered through a process of restorying their conversations for the five elements of plot: structure, characters, setting, problem, actions, and resolution. This resulted in a reconstruction of each of the study participant's individual lived stories as African American homeschoolers. Findings from this study reveal that the historical and contemporary problematic that African Americans and many other marginalized groups face within the U.S. educational system was not captured in every narrative from the participants of this study. However, this narrative inquiry into the lives of these women who made the decision to homeschool their children did reveal their unique understandings on why, what, and how they were un-doing school.
Download or read book African American Children in Early Childhood Education written by Iheoma U. Iruka and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents both the challenges and opportunities that exist for addressing the critical needs of black children, who have been historically underserved in the U.S. education system.
Download or read book Homeschooling While Black written by Traverro Harden and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through my personal journey, you will learn the reasons for and an approach to homeschooling from a culturally rooted perspective. What You Will Gain: - Insight based on a real homeschooling journey - Reasons for homeschooling vs. traditional schooling - How to create a home education plan - How to identify your children's motivations and strengths - How to find and utilize community resources for your homeschool - Potential family/financial impact of homeschooling And more!
