Racial Opportunity Cost (eBook)

The Toll of Academic Success on Black and Latinx Students

Terah Venzant Chambers (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
296 Seiten
Harvard Education Press (Verlag)
978-1-68253-745-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Racial Opportunity Cost turns critical attention to the specific challenges faced by high-achieving students of color and gives educators a framework for recognizing and addressing these issues. Terah Venzant Chambers roots her discussion in the concept of racial opportunity cost, using a term borrowed from economics to refer to the obstacles faced and tradeoffs made by Black and Latinx students on the path to academic success.Gathering first-hand accounts from students, practitioners, and researchers, Venzant Chambers underscores a set of experiences common to academically successful students from racially minoritized backgrounds, especially those who attend predominantly white schools. These individual testimonies collectively show how, despite their successes, high-achieving students of color regularly encounter educational racism. As their experiences reveal, their academic progress may also be impeded by secondary stressors such as peer and cultural isolation and struggles with racial identity. These personal accounts illustrate the many ways in which the negative effects of racial opportunity cost extend from K12 education into postsecondary academics and beyond.In this clarifying work, Venzant Chambers identifies the factors, such as school culture, intersectionality, and community acceptance that can increase or lessen racial opportunity cost across educational environments. She considers how the individual challenges that high-achieving and high-ability students of color confront reflect larger systemic problems. Venzant Chambers' framework will help educators proactively cultivate change in their classrooms and schools so that they may lower racial opportunity cost and improve student experiences.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.8.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Race and Education
• Reihe/Serie: Race and Education
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): H. Richard Milner
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Black students • Classroom Environment • educational racism • high-achieving students • high-achieving students of color • higher education • Intersectionality • K-12 education • K-12 teachers • Latinx students • Marginalized students • minoritized students • post-secondary education • predominantly white school • professional development • race and education • racial community • racial identity • racial opportunity cost • School Climate • School environment • secondary education • student empowerment • Student Experiences • student potential • students of color • Student success
• ISBN-10: 1-68253-745-5 / 1682537455
• ISBN-13: 978-1-68253-745-9 / 9781682537459