ERIC Number: EJ1216565
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 7
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-2984
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Do Negro Boys Need Separate Schools? Evaluating Choice, Rhetoric and Practices
Jones, Amber
Journal of Negro Education, v83 n3 p274-280 Sum 2014
Du Bois poses a poignant question in 1935 based on the logic that Black children need to be in schools where they are valued and inspired whether that environment is a separate school or an "integrated" school. This question of the effects of different educational spaces still begs to be answered in the changing landscape of secondary and postsecondary education for African American students and especially African American males. This article explores how increased choices, such as single-sex charter schools and for profit colleges, do or do not address the historical, educational, and social debt owed to African American males. Rhetoric and best practices associated with these choices are evaluated to inform recommendations for parents, students, communities, and universities.
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Single Sex Schools, Charter Schools, Black Colleges, Proprietary Schools, African American Education, College Students, School Choice, College Choice, Secondary School Students, Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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