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Title: Morning by Morning : How We Home-Schooled Our African-American Sons to the Ivy League by Paula Penn-Nabrit ISBN: 0-375-50774-4 Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: 18 February, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Exceptionally Well-Written, Engaging!
Comment: I am grateful to Paula Penn-Nabrit for having written this illuminating book. It is beyond my criticism. Perhaps the greatest treasure it offers is its revelation of how racism is still being played out by well-meaning white people. (You would have to read it to "get" it, especially if you are a standard white person like I am.) I also love that the Nabrits devised their own curriculum: so creative and applaudable! In fact, Paula is so personable you will appreciate her as a woman, despite the flaws that she confesses. You will also know she is no less a genius for not graduating all 3 sons from Ivy League Schools. I think those sons must be fantastic people and the Nabrits have done us all a favor by sending out into the world children of such extraordinary character. I would hope everyone reads this book, whether they choose to homeschool or not- it presents such a superlative example of what you can do for your children. Thank you, Paula.
Rating: 4
Summary: A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE
Comment: Home Schooling is a controversial subject within the African-American community particularly those of the so-called upper middle-classes. America's public school system has proved itself a failure to adequately educate African-American children and private schools are no better. What is one to do? Paula Penn-Nabrit provides an answer, home schooling.
Yes, home schooling is a viable alternative. She should know because she and her spouse created such an environment for their sons. The results? All three young men were accepted into Ivy League schools. In viewing the results home schooling should not be ignored as an option for your child's education.
Morning By Morning takes us on a faith journey of parents who decided to take charge of the education of their sons. Ms and Mr Nabrit describe how they reached the decision, the steps they took to develop a curriculum for their sons, the criticism that they received from family members and the change in themselves and their boys as they went through the program.
Ms Nabrit shares with her readers practical information about home schooling and presents a well thought out philosophical foundation of the need to give her children a wholistic education not found in schools. She doesn't preach that her method is the only way or that home schooling is for everybody. She lays out the facts, resources and lessons learned from her experience and lets the reader make the decision.
I found this to be an excellent book by an African-American who has clearly shared with her readers the challenge of home schooling her children. She doesn't leave any aspect of the experience untouched and lets the parents know what they're getting themselves into emotionally, economically and spiritually. I certainly enjoyed Ms Nabrit's incorporation of the spiritual aspect of her children's lives in the education process. She and her husband are truly committed to a wholistic
education for their children and succeeded. This book is an example of how African-American parents can achieve the same thing for their children.
As much as I liked the book there were some philosophical problems I had with it. The Nabrits are "Ivy" League graduates as well as products of private white schools. They sent their children to private white schools and upper middle class public schools. Their commitment to home schooling came about when their sons were expelled from their elite private white school because their parents failed to pay the tuition in a timely matter. Although the Nabrits admit that this was the reason for them going to home schooling, I'm wondering if they still had the need to prove that their children could get into "Ivy" League schools because such institutions are white.
Certainly the class bias predominates throughout the work. Ms Nabrit makes sure that we learn about the pedigrees of both her family and that of her husbands who were fortunate enough to have a tradition of college educated family members. This book is certainly geared towards the African-American Upper Middle-Class.
Home Schooling is considered a risky alternative form of education. The Nabrits have proved that it can be successful and that your children can compete with anyone. If you as a parent have the time, tenacity, commitment and ability to take on the challenge by all means seek home schooling for your child. There isn't any doubt that they will do better than their institutionalized colleagues. The Nabrit's experiment proved it.
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Title: Young, Gifted, and Black : Promoting High Achievement Among African-American Students by Theresa Perry ISBN: 0807031542 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 17 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Freedom Challenge: African American Homeschoolers by Grace Llewellyn ISBN: 0962959111 Publisher: Lowry House Pub Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Learning While Black: Creating Educational Excellence for African American Children by Janice E. Hale, V. P. Franklin ISBN: 0801867762 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Black Students / Middle Class Teachers by Jawanza Kunjufu ISBN: 0913543810 Publisher: African American Images Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Acting Black: College, Identity, and the Performance of Race by Sarah Susannah Willie ISBN: 0415944104 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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