Counternarratives: Voices From New Scholars of Color

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

This interactive symposium brings together senior scholars with promising young scholars to analyze and discuss pressing issues impacting African American, English Language Learner, and Latino students. The first panelist brings a gendered analysis to Black social studies which began in Nannie Helen Burrough’s National Training School in Washington D.C. The second panelist examines ELL and Special Education data, her analysis focuses on the evolving trend of double placement of English Language Learners in Special Education. Our third panelist provides portraits of Black English teachers’ voices on black student achievement in a post-Civil Rights era. The fourth panelist proposes a theory called “pertinent endeavors” which concerns African American boys’ social and academic engagement.

Sub Unit

• Committee on Scholars of Color in Education

Chair

• Victoria M. MacDonald, University of Maryland - College Park

Papers

• Black Female Architects of the Alternative Black Curriculum in Social Studies - Alana D. Murray, University of Maryland

• Double Jeopardy: An Analysis of the Reading Data of Eighth-Grade English Language Learners in Special Education - Ebony Demetria Terrell Shockley, University of Maryland - College Park

• Black English Teachers and Student Achievement in the Post-Civil Rights Era - Summer Carrol, University of Maryland - College Park

• Beyond After-School Activities: Toward a Theory of Pertinent Endeavors for Black Males - Roderick LaMar Carey, University of Maryland - College Park

Discussant

• Marvin Lynn, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire