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Delivering on the Promise of Early Childhood Education for Black Children: An Equity Strategy
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Iruka, Iheoma U. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2022
The early years are a critical period for setting children up for school and life. For Black children who are exposed to adversities before and after birth, early childhood education (ECE) has been shown as one potentially strategy to mitigate against systemic inequities. However, evidence continues to show the negative impact of structural racism…
Descriptors: African American Children, Early Childhood Education, At Risk Persons, Racism
The Handbook of Racial Equity in Early Childhood Education
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Neitzel, Jen; Mead, Ebonyse – Brookes Publishing Company, 2023
The goal of every early educator is to prepare all students for school success--but for young Black children, entrenched biases and racial inequities have created an achievement gap that must be closed. Transform your practices "and" work for systemic change with this visionary guidebook, a comprehensive roadmap to promoting racial…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Race, Early Childhood Education, Academic Achievement
Writing the School House Blues: Literacy, Equity, and Belonging in a Child's Early Schooling. Language and Literacy Series
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Dyson, Anne Haas – Teachers College Press, 2021
Anne Dyson confronts race and racism head-on with this ethnographic study of a child's efforts to belong--to be a child among children. Follow the journey of a small Black child, Ta'Von, as he moves from a culturally inclusive preschool through the early grades in a school located in a majority white neighborhood. Readers will see Ta'Von…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, African American Children, Educational Environment, Racial Composition
Review of Policy Effects on Black Families and Children: Advancing the Black Child National Agenda
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Evandra Catherine; Brittany Alexander; Iheoma U. Iruka; Shantel Meek; Mary C. Edwards – FPG Child Development Institute, 2024
In September 2021, the Equity Research Action Coalition, in partnership with the National Black Child Development Institute and POINTS of ACCESS, LLC, collaborated in creating the Black Child National Agenda to challenge the negative and stereotypical narrative of Black children, families, and communities and to identify 10 priorities to dismantle…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, African American Family, African American Children, Ethnic Stereotypes
"Subtle, Vicious Effects": Lillian Steele Proctor's Pioneering Investigation of Gifted African American Children in Washington, DC
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Terzian, Sevan G. – History of Education Quarterly, 2021
This essay examines the first detailed study of gifted African American youth: Lillian Steele Proctor's master's thesis from the late 1920s on Black children in Washington, DC. Unlike formative research on gifted children by educational psychologists, Proctor's investigation emphasized children's experiences at school, home, and community in…
Descriptors: African American Students, Academically Gifted, Racial Bias, Racial Discrimination
The State of Higher Education for Black Californians
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Reddy, Vikash; Siqueiros, Michele – Campaign for College Opportunity, 2021
The State of Higher Education for Black Californians is the first in the Campaign for College Opportunity's series of reports on the current state of college access and completion for California's Black; Latinx; and Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islanders. The state of higher education reports also discuss the implications of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Graduation Rate, African American Students