[DOWNLOAD] "Meaningful Learning with African American Families: The Freedom Quilt Funpacks." by Childhood Education # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Meaningful Learning with African American Families: The Freedom Quilt Funpacks.
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2004
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 183 KB
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Despite some characterization as being uninvolved in the education of their children, African American parents have always valued education and recognized it as the key to economic and political freedom. Despite laws in the United States prohibiting the education of slaves, African Americans were the first southerners to campaign for universal, state-supported public education. Yet, schools for African American children were not fully established in the United States until the middle of the 20th century. Even today, African American parents are still battling for equitable education for their children (Anderson, 1988). Without equity in education, particularly in mathematics education, students cannot gain access to higher education and, subsequently, higher paying careers. Equity, defined here as equal resources, instruction, and outcomes (Allexsaht-Schider & Hart, 2001), has not been realized by people of color. Data from the National Association of Educational Progress (Brawell et al., 2001) documents a pervasive and persistent gap in mathematics test scores between African American and European American students. The gap is in part due to historical inequities in resources. For example, in Lowdes County, Alabama, during the early 20th century, the school district spent $20 per year on European American students, compared with 67 cents on African American students. During the same time, African American teachers' salaries were half that of their European American counterparts (Anderson, 1990).