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  2. National Alliance of Black School Educators - Wikipedia

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    In 1972, the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Office of Special Concern's Office of African-American Affairs, awarded NABSS a grant to conduct an in-depth research study of 40 school districts headed by African-American superintendents. Dr. Meharry Lewis was the principal investigator for the grant.

  3. History of African-American education - Wikipedia

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    The History of African-American education deals with the public and private schools at all levels used by African Americans in the United States and for the related policies and debates. Black schools, also referred to as "Negro schools" and " colored schools ", were racially segregated schools in the United States that originated in the ...

  4. Secondary School Study - Wikipedia

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    Historically, progressive African American education had remained relatively stagnant. [5] Without a clear direction of how progressive education would manifest itself within the school system, progressive African American educators began cultivating practices they found most crucial to the success of students in this time period. [ 6 ]

  5. Educational inequality in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Unequal access to education in the United States results in unequal outcomes for students. Disparities in academic access among students in the United States are the result of multiple factors including government policies, school choice, family wealth, parenting style, implicit bias towards students' race or ethnicity, and the resources available to students and their schools.

  6. Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics

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    The Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO), informally named the "Olympics of the Mind," is a youth program of the NAACP that is "designed to recruit, stimulate, improve and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African American high school students."

  7. Tyrone Howard - Wikipedia

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    Tyrone C. Howard is an American educator, academic, and author.He is a professor of Education in the School of Education and Information Studies [1] and the Founder and executive director of the Black Male Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. [2]

  8. John Ogbu - Wikipedia

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    John Uzo Ogbu (May 9, 1939 – August 20, 2003) was a Nigerian-American anthropologist and professor known for his theories on observed phenomena involving race and intelligence, especially how race and ethnic differences played out in educational and economic achievement. [1]

  9. Ivory A. Toldson - Wikipedia

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    Ivory Achebe Toldson (born 1973) is an American academic and author. He is a professor of Counseling Psychology at Howard University, national director of Education Innovation and Research for the NAACP, [1] the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Negro Education, and executive editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Research, published by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. [2 ...