Mathematics success and failure among African-American youth

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"Mathematics Success and Failure Among African-American Youth goes beyond the conventional explanations of ability, socioeconomic status, differential treatment, and biased curricula to consider the effects of history, community, and peers - and the individual agency that allows some students to succeed despite these influences.". "This book will be useful and informative to many groups: mathematics education researchers, education researchers interested in the social context of learning and teaching, policymakers, preservice and in-service teachers, students, parents, and community advocates. It will also be of interest to readers concerned with multicultural education, cross-cultural studies of mathematics learning, sociology of education, Black studies, and issues of underrepresentation in science and mathematics."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Mathematics,  African American students,  Education,  Study and teaching,  31.04 teaching, profession, organizations of mathematics,  Studieresultaten,  Social aspects,  African Americans,  Learning,  Wiskunde,  Negers,  Mathematical ability,  African americans, education,  Mathematics, study and teaching (secondary),  African american youth,  Mathématiques,  Étude et enseignement,  Élèves noirs américains,  Study & Teaching

Places: United States