The Burning House: Educating Black Boys in Modern America

The education of Black boys is in peril but receives little national attention. School leaders, teachers, and parents are working to address the dropout crisis, COVID-19, special education referrals, the school-to-prison pipeline and other barriers that prevent African American boys from excelling. In The Burning House, award-winning educator and former principal, Desmond Williams examines the problems plaguing African American boys through a different lens. Williams addresses pedagogy, reading instruction, neoliberalism, behavior problems, and lack of belonging as metaphorical rooms within a burning house. Williams examines race consciousness and the impact of white supremacy on teacher ability to navigate current educational issues. Having served as a principal and teacher for 20 years, Williams’s work is a call to enact a different framework for educating Black males in the 21st century. In this second edition, Williams looks at the education of Black boys in a post-George Floyd world, with attention to COVID-19 and a blockbuster chapter on reading instruction. Williams shares personal anecdotes, balanced by current data, and the voices of prominent scholars including, Paulo Freire, Asa Hilliard, Noam Chomsky, Janice Hale, Robert L. Williams, Pedro Noguero, Baruti Kafele and others. Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King’s post-civil rights thinking, Williams thoroughly evaluates the educational advancement of some African Americans in relation to the whole. Armed with practical teaching tips, sample lessons, culturally relevant units, and frameworks for viewing success, this book is a must read for all teachers and parents who support Black males in K-12.
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Author/Artist:Williams, Desmond
Binding: Paperback
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