Suggested Reading

General Reading List Autobiographies/Biographies/History/General Interest

• The Miseducation of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
• It’s the Little Things by Lena Williams
• The Measure of Our Success by Marian Wright Edelman
• Respect by Sara Lawrence Lightfoot
• Maggie’s American Dream by Dr. James Comer
• The Pact by Sampson Davis, George Jenkins and Rameck Hunt
• Gifted Hands by Dr. Benjamin Carson
• School Administrators and Teachers (Hands-on Application and General Knowledge)
• Other People’s Children by Lisa Delpit
• Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children by Gloria Ladson-Billings
• Listening to Urban Kids, School Reform and the Teachers They Want by Bruce L. Wilson and H. Dickson Corbett
• Black Students and School Failure, Policies, Practices and Prescriptions by Jacqueline Jordan Irvine
• Keys to Success for Urban School Principals by Gwendolyn J. Cooke
• What is it About Me You Can’t Teach by Eleanor Renee Rodriguez
• Expectations: How Teacher Expectations Can Increase Student Achievement by Robert L. Green
• Public Education and Black Male Students: A State Report Card by The Schott Foundation for Public Education
• Teaching Reading To Black Adolescent Males (Closing the Achievement Gap) by Alfred Tatum
• They Came Before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima
• Black Children Their Roots, Culture and Learning Styles by Janice Hale
• Stolen Legacy by George G.M. James
• We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know (White Teachers, Multiracial Schools) by Gary R. Howard
• Family Life and School Achievement (Why Poor Black Children Succeed or Fail) by Reginald M. Clark
• Effective Strategies for Teaching Minority Students by Howard D. Hill