Books
Written by Dr. Edmund W. Gordon
Book Chapters
Edmund W. Gordon, “Establishing a System of Public Education in Which All Children Have to Achieve at High Levels and Reach Their Full Potential, in The Covenant with Black America, Tavis Smiley (Chicago: Third World Press, 2006), 26.
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Edmund W. Gordon, “The Myths and Realities of African-American Fatherhood” in Resilience across contexts: family, work, culture, and community, Ed. Margaret C. Wang (Routledge, 2000), 217.
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Affirmative Development by Edmund W. Gordon, Beatrice L. Bridglall (Editor)
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Synopsis
Affirmative Development makes the case theoretically for deliberate intervention to develop academic ability for students not naturally disposed to develop such ability by the conditions under which they live. The book includes discussions of intellective competence and intellective character as products of the development of academic ability and reviews of the research evidence for the feasibility and morality of such action.
Education and Justice: A View from the Back of the Bus, by Edmund W. Gordon
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Synoposis
This collection of essays reflects the author's commitment to improving the effectiveness of education and advancing the practice of democracy. All essays are introduced with commentaries in which Edmund Gordon contextualizes and explains the continuing relevance of the issues.
Supplementary Education: the hidden curriculum of high academic achievement, edited by Edmund W. Gordon, Beatrice L. Bridglall, Aundra Saa Meroe
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Synopsis
This book makes the case and lays the conceptual foundation for the significance of supplementary education in reducing the academic achievement gap between majority students and students of color. It further elaborates on the idea of supplementary education, which is based on the assumption that high academic achievement is closely associated with exposure to family and community-based activities and learning experiences that occur outside of school in support of academic learning.
Written About Dr. Edmund W. Gordon
Books
Edmund W. Gordon: Producing Knowledge, Pursuing Understanding, Volume 1, edited by Carol Camp Yeakey
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Synopsis
The initial volume in this new series focuses on the work of Edmund W. Gordon, the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Yale University. Gordon had a tremendous influence on contemporary thinking in psychology, education and social policy and the implications of his work for the schooling of lower status youth and children of color, in America. For some, this volume will reacquaint them with Gordon and many of the young persons, now senior scholars themselves, who have learned from him. For others, this volume will simply inform them of the magnitude of the man and the legacy of researchers and research he has spawned.