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Author Perry, Theresa.

Title Young, gifted, and Black : promoting high achievement among African-American students / Theresa Perry, Claude Steele, and Asa G. Hilliard III.

Imprint Boston : Beacon Press, c2003.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  371.8296073 P429y 2003    ---  Available
Description viii, 183 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-183).
Contents Up from the parched earth : toward a theory of African-American achievement -- Freedom for literacy and literacy for freedom : the African-American philosophy of education -- Competing theories of group achievement -- Achieving in post-Civil Rights America : the outline of a theory -- Stereotype threat and African-American student achievement -- No mystery : closing the achievement gap between Africans and excellence.
Subject African Americans -- Education.
Academic achievement.
Educational equalization.
Added Author Steele, Claude.
Hilliard, Asa G.
ISBN 0807031542 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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