Strengthening the African American Educational Pipeline - Informing Research, Policy, and Practice (Hardcover)

Focusing on pre-K-12 schools, higher education, and social influences, this book examines the following question: What systemic set of strategies is necessary to improve the conditions for African Americans throughout the educational pipeline?Comprehensive in its approach to representing the educational experiences of African Americans over the life course, this book fills an important gap in the literature. - James Earl Davis, coeditor of African American Males in School and Society: Practices and Policies for Effective EducationJerlando F. L. Jackson accomplishes the difficult task of helping us understand the complexities involved in getting the African American student from school to the workplace. While seemingly simple, the multiplicity of factors which emerge and impact the educational process must be understood by researchers, policy makers, and educators as we all become partners in the process to improve the conditions and experiences of African Americans in education. Jackson provides us with manageable ways to learn and begin to understand the systemic implications of this process in his book. - Barbara M. Pulliam, Superintendent, Clayton County Schools, Jonesboro, GeorgiaThis volume provides an important window to the pipeline problem. It also offers some viable solutions. If we do the work it challenges us to do, then we hope that the next generation will have no need for a book that calls for strengthening the pipeline. - from the Foreword by Gloria Ladson-BillingsThis book is a must read for all policy agents responsible for making decisions in reference to African Americans in education and will surely emerge as the seminal piece on this topic. - Congresswoman Gwendolynne S. Moore, 4th District of Wisconsin.