Effective Strategies To Better Meet the Black Girl Needs For Success with Expert Dr. Hyacinth Dyer

The Brighter Side of Education: Research, Innovation & Resources

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In this episode, I focus on culture as a variable. Educating the young Black girl is becoming an increasing problem for American educators. The Black girl is characterized as sassy, aggressive, bossy, and disrespectful. Because of these perceptions, they often are subjected to more frequent and harsher disciplinary actions. From kindergarten through their senior year in high school, Black girls are seven times more likely to be suspended than White girls, and four times more likely to be arrested at school. As early as preschool, Black girls accounted for 54% of all girls suspended despite being only 20% of the girls enrolled (Williams, 2019).

Here to discuss the topic of Black girls in the American educational system is Dr. Hyacinth Dwyer. She has examined the experiences of the Black girl in the K-12 public school system in her study, Education and the Black Girl, and determined effective strategies that teachers can use to better meet her needs for success.
As Evans-Winters and Esposito (2010) explained:

There is a need for more scholarship in the field of education that looks at the educational experiences and schooling processes of African American girls. Because feminist epistemologies tend to be concerned with the education of White girls and women and raced-based epistemologies tend to be consumed with the educational barriers negatively effecting Black boys, the educational needs of Black girls have fallen through the cracks.

So here is the call to action: Teachers need to help the Black girl not fall through the cracks of the educational system by embracing culturally relevant instruction as a philosophy and process to establish an inclusive culture.

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