Urban Preparation
eBook - ePub

Urban Preparation

Young Black Men Moving from Chicago's South Side to Success in Higher Education

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Urban Preparation

Young Black Men Moving from Chicago's South Side to Success in Higher Education

About this book

2018 Critics' Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association (AESA)
2018 Outstanding Book Award, Society of Professors of Education

Chezare A. Warren chronicles the transition of a cohort of young Black males from Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men to their early experiences in higher education.
A rich and closely observed account of a mission-driven school and its students, Urban Preparation makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how young males of color can best be served in schools throughout the United States today.
 
A founding teacher at Urban Prep, Warren offers a detailed exploration of what this single-sex public high school on the South Side of Chicago has managed to accomplish amid profoundly challenging circumstances. He provides a comprehensive portrait of the school—its leaders, teachers, and professional staff; its students; and the community that the school aims to serve—and highlights how preparation for higher education is central to its mission.
 
Warren focuses on three main goals: to describe Urban Prep’s plans and efforts to prepare young Black males for college; to understand how race, community, poverty, and the school contributed, in complex and interrelated ways, to the academic goals of these students; and to offer a wide-ranging set of conclusions about the school environments and conditions that might help young Black males throughout the country succeed in high school and college.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Urban Preparation: An Introduction
  8. 1. Improving Urban Education for Young Black Men and Boys
  9. 2. Living and Learning on the South Side of Chicago
  10. 3. UP Years 1 and 2: Schooling Environment
  11. 4. UP Years 3 and 4: Preparation for College
  12. 5. College Transition, Persistence, and Completion
  13. 6. Reimagining the P–20 Education Pipeline for Young Black Men and Boys
  14. 7. Recommendations for Contemporary Urban Education Reform
  15. Appendix. Research Methods
  16. Afterword
  17. Notes
  18. Acknowledgments
  19. About the Author
  20. Index