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Faude, Sarah – Educational Policy, 2021
Through an ethnographic case study within one struggling Afrocentric public charter school in the Mid-Atlantic from 2009 to 2011, I show how broader neoliberal reforms and an incomplete attempt at Afrocentric education combined to redefine Blackness as poverty, danger, and failure through the co-optation of school-based practices. Using a Critical…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Public Schools, Charter Schools, African American Students
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Clarkson, Lesa M. Covington; Johnstone, Jerika R. – Journal of Negro Education, 2011
This article reflects on processes and characteristics that had a positive impact on improving mathematics achievement at an African-centered charter school. In doing so, an exploratory look into organizational culture provides the basis for a discussion on African-centered school culture. African-centered education played a major role in…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, African American Students, Curriculum Development, Charter Schools