Download or read book Restructuring Math Learning for African American Students written by Roland Lucas and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worldwide technological capacity is growing exponentially, and in doing so it increases human data search, processing, and sharing capacities. Transnational businesses with local reach are employing leading edge technology tools ever more and are increasingly requiring that their workforce--even low-skilled workers--have competencies for using them. Students can hardly keep up with this exponential growth of data processing speed and knowledge production. I've reached the awareness years ago, that public schools in urban areas fall far short overall in preparing youth to stay abreast of these demands, due in large part to outdated teaching methods and insufficient resources. One indicator that supports this assessment is the ongoing high dropout rate of African American and Latino students in public high schools of which educators and educational leaders are aware. One means of helping students to adapt to an increasingly technologically demanding market place, is to use interactive technologies infused with the curriculum. Students attending urban public schools, as with most youth today, have already immersed themselves in various new technologies during their activities outside of formal school settings as with social networking through Twitter and Facebook. Leveraging this social and knowledge capital in more formal educational public school settings is one means of enhancing their academic learning experiences and narrowing the achievement gaps they face. This study focused on what dialogue and learning occurred in a Newark public school math class while students were in a culturally-empowering learning space that utilized advanced interactive technologies, coupled with liberating ideologies embedded in the curriculum. The math activities were contextualized within and linked to the broader communities students come from, rather than abstracted from their communities. The students accessed and managed available sociocultural and technological resources to construct meaning and knowledge applicable to their collective self-identified community issues and motives. It has my been experience throughout the course of this study that such an environment produces educational experiences for minority students that are transformative of existing constraining structures in public schools, affording agency for disadvantaged groups. This result can in turn close the knowledge and achievement gaps they face.

Download or read book The Brilliance of Black Children in Mathematics written by Jacqueline Leonard and published by IAP. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a critically important contribution to the work underway to transform schooling for students who have historically been denied access to a quality education, specifically African American children. The first section of the book provides some historical perspective critical to understanding the current state of education in the U.S., specifically for the education of African American children. The following sections include chapters on policy, learning, ethnomathematics, student identity, and teacher preparation as it relates to the mathematical education of Black children. Through offering “counternarratives” about mathematically successful Black youth, advocating for a curriculum that is grounded in African American culture and ways of thinking, providing shining examples of the brilliance of Blacks students, and promoting high expectations for all rather than situating students as the problem, the authors of this book provide powerful insights related to the teaching and learning of mathematics for African American students. As is made evident in this book, effective teaching involves much more than just engaging students in inquiry-based pedagogy (Kitchen, 2003). The chapters offered in this book demonstrate how mathematics instruction for African American students needs to take into account historical marginalization and present-day policies that do harm to Black students (Kunjufu, 2005). Empowering mathematics instruction for African American students needs to take into consideration and promote students’ cultural, spiritual, and historical identities. Furthermore, mathematics instruction for African American students should create opportunities for students to express themselves and the needs of their communities as a means to promote social justice both within their classrooms and communities.

Download or read book Mathematics Success and Failure Among African American Youth written by Danny Bernard Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together theory & methods from cultural & cog. perspectives to examine forces contributing to why a dispropriate no. of African-Amer. students don't reach their potential in math & are then underrepresented in professions requiring math skills.

Download or read book How to Teach Math to Black Students written by Shahid Muhammad and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for parents and teachers of African American students, this book provides strategies for correcting the racial achievement gap in upper-grade mathematics. Advice is provided on instilling confidence in African American students and on teaching math in a less sterile and theoretical way. Also explored is how critical thinking skills are essential in understanding math. A wealth of ideas is provided on creating relevant word problems to help students better understand basic math functions.

Download or read book Critical Race Theory in Mathematics Education written by Julius Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Race Theory in Mathematics Education brings together scholarship that uses critical race theory (CRT) to provide a comprehensive understanding of race, racism, social justice, and experiential knowledge of African Americans’ mathematics education. CRT has gained traction within the educational research sphere, and this book extends and applies this framework to chronicle the paths of mathematics educators who advance and use CRT. This edited collection brings together scholarship that addresses the racial challenges thrusted upon Black learners and the gatekeeping nature of the discipline of mathematics. Across the ten chapters, scholars expand the uses of CRT in mathematics education and share insights with stakeholders regarding the racialized experiences of mathematics students and educators. Collectively, the volume explains how researchers, practitioners, and policymakers can use CRT to examine issues of race, racism, and other forms of oppression in mathematics education for Black children and adults.

Download or read book IMPROVING SCHOOLS FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS written by Sheryl J. Denbo and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving Schools for African American Students is designed to provide educational leaders with a better understanding of how to recognize the diversity of strengths that Black students bring with them to school and how to use these strengths to improve achievement. The articles contained in this book discuss generic education issues such as policy reform, the importance of high quality teaching, and the improvement of schools from the perspective of the academic achievement of African American students. Part I explores institutional racism in the context of America's public schools and provides suggestions for educational leaders to eliminate harmful policies and practices within educational institutions and settings. Part II discusses the kinds of institutional and instructional changes that are needed to support successful schooling of African American children and youth. Part III focuses on the challenges presented to African American students by the current high stakes testing environment that surrounds standards, assessment, and accountability. A review of the literature on schools that have succeeded in improving achievement for African American students at the elementary, middle, and high school levels with districts moving towards narrowing the achievement gap is included. This text examines a wide variety of policies, programs, practices, and research that will provide valuable insight. The emphasis throughout the book is on the ability of educators to successfully restructure their schools, offer high quality teaching and learning standards for African American students and to make the kinds of changes that will result in high achievement for all students.

Download or read book Balancing the Equation written by Joi Angelle Spencer and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The type of education that a student receives in mathematics today has the power to alter their life chances and life goals. Yet, equity around mathematics education remains an elusive goal. Black students are especially vulnerable because they attend a disproportionate number of "at-risk schools," where there are lower percentages of certified teachers, and higher percentages of out of field instructors. Their situation is further complicate by the complex manner in which race plays itself out in the mathematics classroom. In this study, I examine African American students' opportunity to learn mathematics in two central-city middle schools. Opportunity to learn mathematics is envisioned in two parts. First, it is characterized as students' opportunity to engage deeply in mathematics content along the dimensions of cognitive depth, explanation and justification and problem solving. Secondly, it is characterized as the opportunities students have to participate in the enterprise of learning mathematics (both how students participate, and how participation is structured for them). Once, examined, I explore the role of race in these mathematics classrooms through a series of reflective-video interviews with teachers. In these interviews, I seek to understand teacher's perceptions of their African American students as both learners and classroom participants in the endeavor of mathematics. Finally, through interviews, I examine the mathematics and academic identity of successful and unsuccessful African American middle-school mathematics students.

Download or read book Mathematics Teaching Learning and Liberation in the Lives of Black Children written by Danny Bernard Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With issues of equity at the forefront of mathematics education research and policy, this collection offers authoritative scholarship that sheds light on the ways that young black learners experience mathematics in schools and their communities.

Download or read book The Influence of Restructuring on Teachers Beliefs about and Practices with African American Students written by Pauline Lipman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Restructuring in the Classroom written by Richard F. Elmore and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1996-03-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restructuring in the Classroom goes into the classrooms of three elementary schools to take a detailed look at how teachers responded to changes in structure in their schools. The authors interviewed principals, teachers, parents, support staff, and district personnel to produce in-depth case studies of schools at various stages of restructuring, showing what the school had done to change its structure and how those changes had occurred. Selecting four teachers in each school for closer observation and discussion, the authors reveal how those teachers responded to the changes around them in their day-to-day practice in the classroom. They show, for example, how teaching practice is or is not affected by changes in the way students are grouped for learning, in the way teachers relate to groups of students and to each other, and in the way time is allocated to subject matter.

Download or read book Perspectives on African Americans written by Marilyn E. Strutchens and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focus of book is on equality issues in mathematics education for African American students and looks critically at successful and unsuccessful teaching practices.

Download or read book America s MIA Missing in Algebra I written by Ph. D. Clarence Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's MIA (Missing in Algebra I) is intended to serve the needs of African American students in public schools in America. It is organized for parents and community supporters to use as an outline to improve the learning of mathematics by African American students in public schools and the community. The fundamental concepts and theory concerning the writing of this book are significant to education of all students with the main focus on the African American students during the initial stages. The organization plan and framework of Dr. Johnson's book is intended to share his teaching of basic mathematics to African American students, successfully. The first several chapters will give the framework of the basic organization of the learning community and ways to organize the learning environment. His suggestions are introduced only to motivate the supporters of learning improvement for African American students in mathematics. The practices suggested reflect 47 years of his career in education beginning as a 4-year college student focused on learning to teach mathematics; a mathematics middle school classroom teacher for ten years; a high school counselor for two years; a middle school assistant principal for one year; a high school assistant principal for nine years; a high school principal for 14 years; a director of safe and secure schools for 11 years; a researcher in mathematics achievement of African American students for four years; and concluding with a dissertation on success of African American students on high-stakes tests in mathematics, leading to a PhD in educational leadership. America's MIA (Missing in Algebra I), written by Dr. Johnson is designed to awake the conscious of the African American parents; private and public school teachers, college instructors, and the workforce of our great nation. His book recommends that we change the way we teach and respect African American students and all ethnic groups. The average reader and community person will have the opportunity to read his book and participate in making the necessary changes to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics by all students especially, African Americans.

Download or read book Teaching Mathematics to African American Students Lessons Learned written by Monica E. Hodges and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Improving Mathematical Outcomes for African American and Latinx Students written by India LaShae Chambers-Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This mixed methods study focused on why mathematical outcomes for African American and Latinx students are substantially lower than any subgroup at an Ohio elementary school. A critical participatory action research design and phenomenological approach was used to uncover what teachers and administrators deemed effective in improving math instruction and quantifiable data that explored proficiency and growth of African American and Latinx students compared to their White peers. Results indicate that opportunity gaps and the absence of positive relationship between African American students and teachers negatively impact their mathematical performance. The proposed action plan calls for: ongoing professional learning on community cultural wealth, the adoption of CRP framework, weekly professional learning communities, after-school program, and alternate times and spaces for PTO meetings.

Download or read book Making Math Learning Fun for Inner City School Students written by Glendolyn Duhon-Jeanlouis and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Math Learning Fun for Inner City School Students is an effective tool for educators and a textbook for professors of higher education. The concepts discussed in the book provide a body of knowledge that will enable leaders to understand the critical issues surrounding inner city school students in their ability to learn mathematical concepts. Research shows that three to five teachers of mathematics leave the school system within the first two years of teaching because of frustration experienced while helping inner city school students comprehend and master mathematical skills. Students are often discouraged by inappropriate teaching strategies that favor learning math concepts in isolation, rather than making them relevant to daily life or cultural experiences. Teachers of math must clearly understand inner city school students' learning styles when they are implementing a process for the student to learn. Classroom teachers in the twenty-first century must have valid knowledge of how the brains of inner city school children work. For students to master and comprehend math skills, learning activities must be both fun and relevant to their present body of knowledge about life and living.

Download or read book America s MIA Missing in Algebra I written by Ph. D. Clarence Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's MIA (Missing in Algebra I) is intended to serve the needs of African American students in public schools in America. It is organized for parents and community supporters to use as an outline to improve the learning of mathematics by African American students in public schools and the community. The fundamental concepts and theory concerning the writing of this book are significant to education of all students with the main focus on the African American students during the initial stages. The organization plan and framework of Dr. Johnson's book is intended to share his teaching of basic mathematics to African American students, successfully. The first several chapters will give the framework of the basic organization of the learning community and ways to organize the learning environment. His suggestions are introduced only to motivate the supporters of learning improvement for African American students in mathematics. The practices suggested reflect 47 years of his career in education beginning as a 4-year college student focused on learning to teach mathematics; a mathematics middle school classroom teacher for ten years; a high school counselor for two years; a middle school assistant principal for one year; a high school assistant principal for nine years; a high school principal for 14 years; a director of safe and secure schools for 11 years; a researcher in mathematics achievement of African American students for four years; and concluding with a dissertation on success of African American students on high-stakes tests in mathematics, leading to a PhD in educational leadership. America's MIA (Missing in Algebra I), written by Dr. Johnson is designed to awake the conscious of the African American parents; private and public school teachers, college instructors, and the workforce of our great nation. His book recommends that we change the way we teach and respect African American students and all ethnic groups. The average reader and community person will have the opportunity to read his book and participate in making the necessary changes to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics by all students especially, African Americans.

Download or read book Closing the Racial Academic Achievement Gap written by Matthew Lynch and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to this timely analysis, the myth of the racial achievement gap has nothing to do with genetics and everything to do wotha host of embarrassing yet reversible social and pedagogical failures. For every problem raised, the text offers a levelheaded solution, culminating in a plan for closing the supposed racial achievement gap for good.