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Band-Aids Don't Fix Bullet Holes. A Response to "We Were There Too: Learning from Black Male Teachers in Mississippi about Successful Teaching of Black Students"
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Jackson, Melinda; Green, Dari; Martin, Lori Latrice; Fasching-Varner, Kenneth J. – Democracy & Education, 2016
Hayes, Juarez, and Escoffery-Runnels (2014) analyzed the educational philosophies and pedagogical practices of two educators to understand how personal and professional experiences individually and collectively influenced their approach to teaching. Using oral histories, they presented an argument of why culturally relevant and social…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, African American Students, Culturally Relevant Education, Social Justice
Once Again, Mississippi Takes Aim at Black Higher Education.
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Cross, Theodore; Slater, Robert Bruce – Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 1996
Argues that Mississippi has used every effort to block the higher education aspirations of its black citizens and describes the state's latest effort that involves setting higher admissions standards at the state's predominantly black universities. The history of unequal funding of higher education in the state is highlighted, as well as political…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Black Education, College Admission, Enrollment