Making the Connection: Language and Academic Achievement Among African American Students (review)

Language ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 849-850
Author(s):  
Iman Makeba Laversuch
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
African American ◽  
African American Students ◽  
American Students

Academic achievement and college persistence of African American students with trauma exposure.

2013 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 582-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Güler Boyraz ◽  
Sharon G. Horne ◽  
Archandria C. Owens ◽  
Aisha P. Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
African American ◽  
African American Students ◽  
College Persistence ◽  
Trauma Exposure ◽  
American Students

African American Students, Racism, and Academic Injustice

2021 ◽  
pp. 666-689
Author(s):  
Patrice W. Glenn Jones ◽  
Warren C. Hope
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
African American ◽  
African American Students ◽  
Instructional Strategy ◽  
Academic Improvement ◽  
Low Socioeconomic ◽  
American Students ◽  
Racial Injustice ◽  
Urban Student ◽  
The Impact

In effort to align academic achievement for all students, this chapter offers Fostering Urban Student Excellence (FUSE) as an instructional strategy to curtail not-learning and evoke academic improvement among African American students, particularly those from low socioeconomic backgrounds. In addition to introducing FUSE, this chapter outlines the achievement gap, along with the factors that impact it, and reveals the academic position imposed upon African American students by social injustices. The chapter also establishes the critical need for FUSE as a specific instructional strategy to combat the impact of racial injustice.

Addressing the Sociocultural Determinants of African American Students’ Academic Achievement: The Four Themes of the American School Counselor Association’s National Model and the Role of School Counselors

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (8) ◽  
pp. 1149-1175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan P. Rust
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
African American ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
African American Students ◽  
School Counselor ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Systematic Change ◽  
American School ◽  
American Students ◽  
National Model

Social justice, ensuring that all students receive access to equitable educational resources and opportunities to succeed academically, is a guiding principle for school counselors. With this ideal in mind, specific sociocultural factors that affect the academic achievement of African American students in urban school settings are considered. Subsequently, the four themes of the American School Counselor Association’s National Model—leadership, advocacy, collaboration, and systematic change—are used to provide school counselors in urban schools with guidelines to address the academic achievement of African American students related to these sociocultural factors.

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