african american students

Examines theories used to explain the underachievement of African-American students in public schools, looks at effective teaching strategies for use with African-American students, discusses how teachers contribute to misbehavior in African-American students, and explores a variety of culturally sensitive issues and questions.

Discusses the impact of peer pressure on the academic achievement of African-American students, and offers suggestions to students, parents, and teachers on how to improve the odds of success.

The true story of six-year-old Ruby Bridges who, in 1960, was one of the first African American students to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans.

Provides strategies, tactics, and tools to help African-American junior high and high school students structure successful educational careers. Includes essays by fifteen educators and is supplemented by success stories of contemporary African-American high school students.

Explains how new teachers expected to enter America's classrooms in the fist decade of the twenty-first century will have to develop a new model for teaching diverse groups of students.

A graphic novel adaptation of the story of nine African American students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957, and focuses on the friendship of William McNally and Thomas Johnson, the son of William's family's maid.

Discusses the 1963 Birmingham Children's March in Birmingham, Alabama.

Presents a graphic novel of the "Little Rock Nine," nine African American students who were the first to go to a previously segregated school, under armed guard.

A riveting true story of an embattled teenager who paid for integration with her innocence. Beals chronicles her harrowing junior year at Central High where she underwent the segregationists' brutal organized campaign of terrorism which included telephone threats, vigilante stalkers, economic blackmailers, rogue police, and much more.

Presents the true story of nine students who, in 1957, became the first African-Americans to enroll in the previously all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the discrimination they faced on a daily basis.