Antiracist school leadership : toward equity in education for America's students introduction

• Other Authors: Witherspoon-Arnold, Noelle (Editor), Brooks, Jeffrey S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2013]
• Subjects: Educational leadership > Social aspects > United States.; Social justice > United States.; Racism in education > United States.; Discrimination in education > United States.; Educational equalization > United States.; Education > Leadership.; Educational administration and organization.; Educational strategies and policy.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806613854
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-62396-223-4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 216 pages)

Since the passing of Brown versus Board of Education to the election of the first Black president of the United States, there has been much discussion on how far we have come as a nation on issues of race. Some continue to assert that Barack Obama's election ushered in a new era--making the US...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction - antiracist school leadership: Toward equity in education for america's students / Noelle Witherspoon Arnold and Jeffrey S. Brooks
• Chapter 1. White principals and race-conscious leadership / George Theoharis and Marcelle Haddix
• Chapter 2. Race and racial discrimination in schools: School leaders' courageous conversations / Gaetane Jean-Marie and Katherine Mansfield
• Chapter 3. Providing space to talk about race in the elementary reading classroom: Instructional leadership for social justice / Liz Hollingworth
• Chapter 4. Latino/a educational leaders: Racial-identity and the promotion of leadership for social justice / Elizabeth Murakami-Ramalho and Frank Hernandez
• Chapter 5. Equity in education: Using invitational theory to assess students' perspectives of the school environment / Molly Killingsworth
• Chapter 6. A practical and hope-filled tool to address the achievement gap / María L. Gabriel
• Chapter 7. The cultural divide: Connecting working-class and ethnic-minority students and families to schools / Mark Anderson
• Chapter 8. Unspoken realities: White, female teachers discuss race, students, and achievement in the context of teaching in a majority black elementary school / Joy K. Williams
• Chapter 9. The assistant principal's duties, training, and challenges: From color-blind to a critical race perspective / Lisa Nieuwenhuizen, Ph.D., and Jeffrey S. Brooks
• About the authors.