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Bryan, Nathaniel; McMillian, Rachel; LaMar, Keith – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2022
The prison abolition movement has brought attention to the American carceral crisis, or better yet, the mass incarceration and disproportionate criminalization of Black people in America. It has also led to and fomented recent calls to defund prison systems, the police, and to remove police from schools. While discussions of prison abolition have…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, African Americans, Racism
Slaughter-Defoe, Diana T., Ed.; Stevenson, Howard C., Ed.; Arrington, Edith G., Ed.; Johnson, Deborah J., Ed. – Praeger, 2011
This important book provides African American parents with the knowledge to diversify K-12 school choices beyond traditional neighborhood public schools in order to optimize the educational chances of their own children, and it will help educators and policymakers to close the black-white academic achievement gap throughout America. In November…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Social Justice, African American Students, African American Children
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Kritikos, Effie Papoutsis; Birnbaum, Barry – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2004
An interview of 12 caregivers of African American children with mild disabilities from a large Midwestern city was conducted in order to obtain information on their views and experiences with needs and services provided for families of children with mild disabilities. Results revealed interesting information regarding most frequent and most…
Descriptors: African American Children, Mild Disabilities, Caregivers, Parent Attitudes