Black Agenda for Career Education.

Overview & Synopsis

This 12-chapter book contains contributions from selected authors concentrating on a comprehensive analysis of career education for the black American. The treatise takes career education to task for its "white foundations of educational data." Chapter titles and authors are: Black Agenda for Career Education, by Roosevelt Johnson; Career Education and Blacks: A Crisis of Disbelief, Roosevelt Johnson; Career Education and Black Americans, William F. Brazziel; The Future of Work for Black Americans: The Role of Career Education, Charles E. Taylor; Career Education: Quo Vadis? Melvin Sikes; A New Career Education Development Strategy for Rural Youth?--Greater Equity, Increased Priority, Model Approach and Suggested Roles for Educational Institutions, Grady W. Taylor; What a Difference A Black Counselor Makes, Roosevelt Johnson; Career Education; From Whence It Came--Whither It Goeth, Joseph Dixon; Adaptation of the Career Education Concept to Correctional Settings, Mary Lynne Musgrove; Evaluating the Evaluators: Guidelines for Acquiring and Administering Third Party Evaluators of Career Education Programs, Carl L. Harshman and James H. Wooten; Evaluation and Career Education: The Potential and the Problems for a Black Agenda, Carl L. Harshman; A Project on the Development of Institutional Goals in a Public School System, Carl L. Harshman and Roosevelt Johnson. (NH)