Preliminary Material -- Visions of African American Males -- The Stories Lives Tell -- Methodology -- Meet the Families -- Meet the Andersons -- Meet the Wallaces -- Meet the Freemans -- Connecting the Collective -- Collective Achievement and True School Reform -- Bibliography -- Subject Index.

New Visions of Collective Achievement: The Cross-Generational Schooling Experiences of African American Males takes you on a journey into the lives of three families of African American males, each with an elementary aged boy. Bear witness to each boy’s observations and insights on his current schooling experiences, also hear what older males in his family have to say regarding their schooling experiences. Employing qualitative methodology to include their frequently unheard voices in educational research, this book endeavors to move toward correcting this oversight. New Visions of Collective Achievement graciously offers each of us, as stakeholders, a most precious gift: a theoretical and practical framework to effect real, meaningful, and long-lasting change if we are courageous enough to take heed.

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