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Improving School Climate through Sensitivity Training: Integration of a Minority Population into a Predominately White School Culture
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Genco, Stephen H. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Educators must take a critical look at all factors that may affect student outcomes. The No Child Left Behind Legislation (NCLB) was proposed to help ensure that all students have fair and equal access to educational programming. It is important for secondary school educators to be aware of environmental factors that may inhibit student success.…
Descriptors: School Culture, Action Research, Federal Legislation, Sensitivity Training
In Search of Excellence in Education: The Political, Academic, and Curricular Leadership of Ethel T. Overby
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Randolph, Adah Ward; Sanders, Stephanie – Journal of School Leadership, 2011
This article examines the educational leadership of the first African American female principal in Richmond, Virginia: Mrs. Ethel Thompson Overby. It seeks to ascertain, through a historical framework utilizing critical race theory, how this particular educational and instructional leader conceptualized academic achievement given the context of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Excellence in Education, Youth
Black Struggles in Cyberspace: Cyber-Segregation and Cyber-Nazis.
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Beckles, Colin – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1997
Analyzes struggles faced by African Americans regarding internet use by discussing how race and class based factors block many African Americans from cyberspace access and participation. Examines how the lives of African Americans on the World Wide Web and in real life are further hampered by violent, white racist internet use and briefly…
Descriptors: Blacks, Computer Literacy, Computer Mediated Communication, Costs