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Academic Achievement / Educational Excellence Programs & Campaigns (Initiatives / Websites) Baby Steps: A Plan For Okolona's Children Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAOE) Blackstocks Development Corporation Center for Education Reform Children First America Children’s Defense FundEarly Childhood Quality Network (Q-Net) NAACP - Education Department NAACP - Parent Involvement Campaign & Partners for Excellence in Public Education SchoolSuccessInfo.orgNational Black Child Development Institute National Council on Educating Black Children (NCEBC) National Urban League (NUL) – Education Programs NUL Campaign for African American Achievement No Child Left Behind (NCLB) – Official U.S. Department of Education WebsiteNo Excuses No Excuses - Minority Achievement. Reports on minority achievement Operation HOPE, Inc. SchoolChoiceInfo.org CNN Presents: Special Report: The Gap -- 50 years after Brown vs. Board of Education . May 2004.
Articles, Reports, Etc.
This listing provides only a sampling of diverse viewpoints. List is largely in reverse chronological order.
Early Child Care and Education: The Need for a National Policy . The Center for National Policy. September 2004. With mounting evidence that high-quality early child care and education can significantly affect life chances, especially for low-income children, a CNP report calls for development of a comprehensive national policy to ensure broad access to effective programs. Authors Jennifer Kolker, David Osborne and Eric Schnurer review data on program availability, adequacy and cost. They assess state efforts, current federal funding and coordination issues. They urge Congress and the President to act so that outcomes improve for all American childrenLife Way After Head Start. David L. Kirp. New York Times. November 21, 2004 Baby Steps. William Raspberry. The Washington Post. November 17 2003.
Baby Steps: Do our first three years of life determine how we'll turn out? Malcolm Gladwell. The New Yorker, January 10, 2000. . Robert G. Lynch. October 2004. The Economic Policy Institute. Smart Money: Education and Economic Development. William Schweke. July 2004. The Economic Policy Institute. Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black–White Achievement Gap. Richard Rothstein. May 2004. The Economic Policy Institute. Boarding Schools Nurture Low-Income Students . Jay Mathews. Washington Post. September 21, 2004.. Danna Harman. The Christian Science Monitor, June 15, 2004. More articles & reports on public boarding schools . Inside a charter school. Katherine Boo. The New Yorker. October 18, 2004.Clarence Page. At colleges, immigrants are 'minorities' too. Chicago Tribune. July 7, 2004
William Raspberry.
William Raspberry. Closing the Race Gap. The Washington Post, June 30, 2003 William Raspberry. Why black kids lag. The Washington Post, Dec 9, 2002. William Raspberry. Culture of Achievement. The Washington Post, September 23, 2002 William Raspberry. To Change a Culture; Making Achievement Cool. The Washington Post, December 5, 1997 . Poor education prognosis. April 28, 2004 Black education. January 21, 2004. Walter Williams. Affirmative action or racism II. February 5, 2003 Amy J. Orr. Black-white differences in achievement: the importance of wealth. Sociology of Education, October 2003. The Wealth Factor. NEA Today. September 2000. A sociologist (Dalton Conley) says racial differences in family assets, not culture, explain achievement gaps in school performance. Thomas Sowell. School performances; School performances: Part II; School performances: Part III. September 24-26, 2003.
Cynthia Tucker. 'Racism' Claim Lets Kids Down. Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 27, 2003.
Ernest Holsendolph. Young, black and on track ... Why African-American boys often fail in school. The Atlanta Journal - Constitution. Aug 10, 2003. For Every Child, a Stake in America. Ray Boshara and Michael Sherraden. The New York Times. July 23, 2003 Armstrong Williams. "Create Affirmative Action For The Truly Needy," April 3, 2003 .Felicia R. Lee. Why Are Black Students Lagging? New York Times. Nov 30, 2002. Jack White. Why Dropping the SAT is Bad for Blacks: Until We Start Acing The Test, We Can't Say We're Equal. Time, March 12, 2001 Hugh Price.
Academic Achievement and Economic Power: The Next Civil Rights Frontier.
2001. William H. Gray, III. "The Tradition of Academic Excellence in the African-American Community". 2001. Donna Britt. Black Culture Should Build On Success. Washington Post, January 5, 2001 Earl Ofari Hutchinson. Sports Still No Ticket Out of the Ghetto. 2001. John McWhorter. The Gift of Competition. The American Enterprise, December 2000 Bob Herbert. "The Success Taboo," New York Times, December 14, 1997 Selected Recent Books List is largely in reverse chronological order Class and Schools--Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap. Richard Rothstein. Economic Policy Institute. May 2004. At Amazon.com No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning. Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom. Simon & Schuster. October 2003. At Amazon.com Links to Several Reviews of "No Excuses" Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement. John U. Ogbu. Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc. February 2003
Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement Among African-American Students. Theresa Perry. Beacon Press. February 2003. Achievement Matters: Getting Your Child the Best Education Possible. Hugh B. Price Kensington. September 2002. At Amazon.com Bridging the Achievement Gap. John E. Chubb & Tom Loveless (Editors). The Brookings Institution. November 2002. At Amazon.com Inequality at the Starting Gate: Social Background Differences in Achievement as Children Begin School. Valerie E. Lee, David T. Burkam. Economic Policy Institute. September 30, 2002. At Amazon.com Overcoming the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Young Women. Freeman A. Hrabowski, Kenneth I. Maton, Monica L. Greene, Geoffrey L. Greif. Oxford University Press. January 2002. At Amazon.com Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males. Freeman A. Hrabowski, Kenneth I. Maton, Geoffrey L. Greif, Maton Greif Hrabowski. Oxford University Press. April 1998. At Amazon.com Learning While Black: Creating Educational Excellence for African American Children. Janice E. Hale & V. P. Franklin. Johns Hopkins University Press. December 2001. At Amazon.com Raising Standards or Raising Barriers?: Inequality and High Stakes Testing in Public Education. Gary Orfield & Mindy Kornhaber (Editors). Century Foundation Press. August 2001. At Amazon.com The Black-White Test Score Gap. Christopher Jencks & Meredith Phillips (Editors). The Brookings Institution. September 1998. At Amazon.com
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