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Powell-Mikle, Angiline; Patton, Mary Martin – Childhood Education, 2004
Despite some characterization as being uninvolved in the education of their children, African American parents have always valued education and recognized it as the key to economic and political freedom. Despite laws in the United States prohibiting the education of slaves, African Americans were the first southerners to campaign for universal,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Homework, African American Culture, Culturally Relevant Education