Enhancing gifted education for underrepresented students: Promising recruitment and programming strategies

M Ecker-Lyster, C Niileksela - … for the Education of the Gifted, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
For decades, our educational system has been criticized for the limited recruitment and
retention of minority students in gifted education programs. Unfortunately, relatively little …

Who gets served in gifted education? Demographic representation and a call for action

SJ Peters, M Gentry, GW Whiting… - Gifted Child …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The disproportional representation of students from various demographic subgroups within
identified gifted and talented populations has long frustrated policy makers, education …

African American males in education: Endangered or ignored?

JFL Jackson, JL Moore III - Teachers College Record, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
African American males are often categorized as a population at-risk in education (Bailey &
Moore, 2004; Davis, 2003; Moore, 2000). In many social domains of American society, they …

“Just as bad as prisons”: The challenge of dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline through teacher and community education

Q Allen, KA White-Smith - Equity & Excellence in Education, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Drawing upon the authors' experiences working in schools as teachers, teacher educators,
researchers, and community members, this study utilizes a Critical Race Theory of education …

Gifted Black males: Understanding and decreasing barriers to achievement and identity

G Whiting - Roeper Review, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Black males as a group experience disproportionate amounts of school failure. Compared to
Black females and White males, for example, Black males have the highest dropout rates …

From at risk to at promise: Developing scholar identities among Black males

GW Whiting - Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
Black males and females are consistently underrepresented in gifted programs. Just as
unfortunate, countless reports and studies indicate that too many Black males are not …

A qualitative investigation of African American males' career trajectory in engineering: Implications for teachers, school counselors, and parents

JL Moore III - Teachers College Record, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
Using the grounded theory approach, this research investigation, drawing on a larger study,
examined the factors that were most instrumental in influencing African American males' …

[PDF][PDF] Racial microaggressions: The schooling experiences of Black middle-class males in Arizona's secondary schools

Q Allen - Journal of African American Males in …, 2010 - jaamejournal.scholasticahq.com
The literature on Black education has often neglected significant analysis of life in schools
and the experience of racism among Black middle-class students in general and Black …

“I'm trying to get my A”: Black male achievers talk about race, school and achievement

Q Allen - The Urban Review, 2015 - Springer
This study seeks to challenge deficit views on Black male education by highlighting the
perspectives of academically successful Black males in a secondary school setting …

African American males and literacy development in contexts that are characteristically urban

AW Tatum, GE Muhammad - Urban Education, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Advancing the literacy development of African American males in contexts that are
characteristically urban has been a challenging task for educators across the P-12 spectrum …