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Acosta, Melanie M.; Foster, Michele; Houchen, Diedre F. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
Although teacher diversity, teacher preparation, and student achievement are contemporary and overlapping issues, they have suffered from the absence of African American educational principles and traditions. African Americans cultivated a sophisticated system of developing and supporting numbers of African American teachers; however, U.S.…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, African American Education
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Farinde-Wu, Abiola – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2018
Black female educators played a vital role in segregated schools prior to the 1954 landmark Supreme Court case "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas." Despite their notable and historic presence in the field of public education, presently they are disproportionately underrepresented in the U.S. teacher workforce. Acknowledging…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Females, Teacher Persistence, Urban Education