Department of Africana Studies

Jerome Taylor

Educational Justice Project

Closing Racial Achievement Gaps

Please e-mail Jerome Taylor If you would like to receive...

• A complete copy of A Gardening Metaphor which we’ve only summarized in the brochure or download a PDF copy;
• Information about the development and research agenda of the Educational Justice Project;
• A copy of our proposal Pennsylvania CAN—premised on A Gardening Metaphor—which we have designed to accelerate the closure of racial achievement gaps;
• A preliminary comparison of Pennsylvania CAN with two schools which have reversed racial achievement gaps;
• A copy of our paper "The ABC’s of Educational Justice" which proposes methods for quantifying the level of educational justice attainment.
• Notification of presentations on how to accelerate closures of racial achievement gaps.

Faculty

Joseph K. Adjaye
Professor of African History and Culture

Brenda F. Berrian
Professor of Africana Studies, English, and Women’s Studies

Cecil Blake
Chair and Associate Professor

Kwame Botwe-Asamoah
Assistant Professor

Dennis V. Brutus
Professor Emeritus

Yolanda Covington-Ward
Assistant Professor

Vernell A. Lillie
Professor Emeritus

Oronde S. Sharif
Lecturer and Major Advisor

Jerome Taylor
Associate Professor

If we are careless and unconcerned about our own rights and interests, it is not within the power of all the earth combined to raise us from our present... condition
—Frederick Douglass
July, 1884
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