?This handbook is needed as a basic reference for professors and graduate students conducting research on the education of Blacks in America.?

-Frank Brown, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

?This volume fills the tremendous void that currently exists in providing a much-needed lens for cultural leadership and proficiency. The approach provides a wide divergence of perspectives on African American forms of leadership in a variety of diverse leadership settings.?

-Len Foster, Washington State University

The SAGE Handbook of African American Education is a unique, comprehensive collection of theoretical and empirical scholarship in six important areas: historical perspectives, teaching and learning, PK?12 school leadership, higher education, current issues, and education policy. The purpose of the Handbook is to articulate perspectives on issues affecting the participation and leadership of African Americans in PK?12 and postsecondary education. This volume also addresses historical and current issues affecting the education of African Americans and discusses current and future school reform efforts that directly affect this group.

Key Features

• Promotes inquiry and development of questions, ideas, and dialogue about critical practice, theory, and research on African Americans in the United States educational system
• Makes significant contributions to the scholarship on African Americans in the broad context of U.S. education and society
• Addresses the central question-in what ways do African Americans in corporate, private, and public positions influence and shape educational policy that affects African Americans?