Tuesday, November 13, 2007

black-focused schools

There has been some controversy recently over plans to open a black-focused school in the Toronto District School Board. For more info:

NEWS ARTICLES:
Black-focused school debate set (Toronto Star, Nov. 7, 2007)
Black only, but don't use the 'S' word (Toronto Star, Nov. 10, 2007)
Community turns out to discuss black-focused schools (CBC, Nov. 9, 2007)

ARTICLES:
George J Sefa Dei (2006, July). BLACK-FOCUSED SCHOOLS: A CALL FOR RE-VISIONING. Education Canada, 46(3), 27-31.

BOOKS:
Reconstructing 'dropout' : a critical ethnography of the dynamics of Black students' disengagement from school / George J. Sefa Dei (9th floor, LC 145 C2 R42 1997)

Black education : a transformative research and action agenda for the new century / edited by Joyce E. King (9th floor, LC 2699 B53 2005)

Black Canadians : history, experience, social conditions / Joseph Mensah (9th floor, FC 106 B6 M45 2002 )

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