Bøger af Martha R. Bireda

The starting point for eliminating the virus of white supremacy ideology from our culture must be in our educational system. This book is intended as a vaccine to help eliminate the damage and to prevent future generations from being infected.

This book introduces the concept of "reflective discipline" as an approach to address the problem of racial disparity.

Schooling Poor Minority Children: New Segregation in the Post-Brown Era explores the "redesign of school segregation" and explains why resegregation of schools in the post-Brown era is so destructive for poor minority students.

The suspension and expulsion of ethnic minority students, especially African American males, remains a critical issue in schools today. This book addresses the root causes of racial disparity in discipline. Dr. Bireda shows how culturally conditioned beliefs and cultural misunderstanding negatively impact teacher-student relationships and interactions in the classroom.

This title explains how cultural factors relate to the ways that discipline is meted out, especially to male Africa-American students. It proposes a set of strategies in order to solve the problem of high frequency of disciplinary referrals.