The Influence of Administrators’ Allocations of the Local Control Funding Formula on African American Students’ Academic Achievement

Author(s):  
Robin McIver-Brown
2013 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 582-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Güler Boyraz ◽  
Sharon G. Horne ◽  
Archandria C. Owens ◽  
Aisha P. Armstrong

Author(s):  
Patrice W. Glenn Jones ◽  
Warren C. Hope

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.


2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (8) ◽  
pp. 1149-1175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan P. Rust

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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