Teacher Education and Black Communities by Yolanda Sealey-Rui... - 9781623966973

Teacher Education and Black CommunitiesImplications for Access, Equity and Achievement\nAuthor(s): Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Chance W. Lewis, Ivory A. Toldson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Inc, United States\nImprint: Information Age Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781623966973, 978-1623966973\nSynopsis\nThe field of education has been and will continue to be essential to the survival and sustainability of the Black community. Unfortunately, over the past five decades, two major trends have become clearly evident in the Black community: (a) the decline of the academic achievement levels of Black students and (b) the disappearance of Black teachers, particularly Black males. Today, of the [url] million teachers in Americas classrooms (AACTE, 2010) only 8% are Black teachers, and approximately 2% of these teachers are Black males (NCES, 2010). Over the past few decades, the Black teaching force in the [url] has dropped significantly (Lewis, 2006; Lewis, Bonner, Byrd, & James, .