Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students

I LOVE this book. My only criticisms would be that 1) the first chapter read more like a collegiate paper or dissertation. Although extremely informative, I was harder to get through than the other two. 2) There was no summation to finalize the book or to tie each of the author's ideas together. 3) There was no suggestion of what's next... e.g. how do we get such instruction enforced, how do we get the knowledge in the hands of legislators and state boards of education. After reading, I had mixed feelings about the knowledge I had acquired from these varied analyses, as they left us with minimum direction.Please note that this criticism does not take away from what the book offers. The research alone is worthy of a 5 star review. Personally, the book provides a great deal of well researched information and data for my ongoing project as well as for my edification as a student of the art of pedagogy of African American students.

Great selection

This book unravels preconceived notions about educating “at-risk” or “low-performing” black students. It makes so clear that educating African-American children is not beyond our reach. I was impressed most by the third essay that explained white-supremacist achievement gap rhetoric. Excellently written! This book is transformative!

I was looking for a good book to read and this is definitely what I was looking for.

Life in a censured world..

Good read

I loved this book. The book gave a good hypothesis as to why African Americans succeeded in education previously but seem to be struggling in the current environment. One thing that was profound to me was that for so long African Americans and education were tied to freedom and now that education is free, what are we going to tie education to. Great Book!!!!

It was the best book that nI have read in a long time. Very insightful. I recommend it to all teachers.