Black Educational Choice

This important book provides African American parents with the knowledge to diversify K-12 school choices beyond traditional neighborhood public schools in order to optimize the educational chances of their own children, and it will help educators and policymakers to close the black-white academic achievement gap throughout America.

Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe and her colleagues have compiled a comprehensive volume that illuminates the path to the best educational choices for African American students. The perspectives and roles of parents, school administrators, teachers, students, and the community on educational choices for African American students are framed well and thoroughly documented. . . . Black Educational Choices is highly recommended to anyone with a vested interest in the academic succes of African American children.

Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe , PhD, is the Constance E. Clayton Professor in Urban Education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

Howard C. Stevenson , PhD, is associate professor of education and former chair of the Applied Psychology and Human Development Division in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

Edith G. Arrington , PhD, is a licensed psychologist and a project manager at the OMG Center for Collaborative Learning, Philadelphia, PA.

Deborah J. Johnson , PhD, is professor of human development and family studies at Michigan State University.