The Education of African-Americans

This volume takes a comprehensive look at the education of African-Americans, specifically early childhood through postsecondary education, and relevant public policy issues since 1940. The list of contributors to the study includes white and black scholars who, by focusing on the known status of the education of African-Americans to date and the additional factors that need to be considered in order to develop appropriate educational strategies, evaluate current programs and suggest ways to improve public policy. Topics ranging from the counseling of minority children to the continuing struggle with racial violence on campus demonstrate the broad scope of this volume.

CHARLES V. WILLIE is professor of education and urban studies at Harvard University Graduate School of Education. His special interests are school desegregation and the recruitment and retention of minorities in higher education. He has published more than 20 books including African-Americans and the Doctoral Experience (1991), Social Goals and Educational Reform (1988), and Five Black Scholars (1986).

ANTOINE M. GARIBALDI is dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of education at Xavier University of Louisiana. His areas of interest and expertise include blacks in higher education, minority teacher recruitment and retention, and urban education. His publications include the following books: Teacher Recruitment and Retention (1989),Educating Black Male Youth: A Moral and Civil Imperative (1988), and Black Colleges and Universities: Challenges for the Future (1984).

WORNIE L. REED is director of the William Monroe Trotter Institute and chair of the Department of Black Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. His areas of interest include the hiring and promotion of black faculty and diversity in the curriculum. Reed was the director of the Study on the Assessment of the Status of African-Americans, which resulted in this book as well as the forthcoming bookAfrican-Americans: Essential Perspectives.

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