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Title: Engaging African American Males in Reading.
Authors: Tatum, Alfred W.1 atatum@niu.edu
Source: Educational Leadership. Feb2006, Vol. 63 Issue 5, p44-49. 5p. 2 Color Photographs.
Subject Terms: *Basal reading instruction, *African American students, *Reading materials, *Social conditions of students, *School violence, *School attendance, Teenage boys, Race discrimination, Social status
Abstract: This article reports that by providing meaningful reading material and encouraging honest debate, teachers can help the African American adolescent males embrace the power of text. The field of education is saturated with studies documenting the poor performance and achievement deficits of the African American males throughout their school years. National reading achievement data continue to indicate that as a group, the African American males are not performing well. Researchers have examined several factors that serve as barriers to achievement for the African American males. These male students often exhibit various cultural-specific coping mechanisms, such behaviors as acting tough, failing to retreat from violence, avoiding self-disclosure, and dissociating from school. External factors include structural racism, community patterns, parents' education attainment, and socioeconomic status. The literacy development of the African American males, both self-generated and school-rendered, connected to larger ideals, such as cultural uplift, economic advancement, resistance to oppression and intellectual development.
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