SPECIAL ISSUE: Closing the Opportunity Gap
August 2020, Volume 1, Issue 1
| Founding Editor & Editor in Chief Dr. Agya Boakye-Boaten UNC Asheville |
| Guest Editor Dr. Dolly Jenkins Mullen Emeritus Professor UNC Asheville | Guest Editor Dr. Dwight Mullen Emeritus Professor UNC Asheville | Guest Editor Dr. Deborah (Dee) James Emeritus Professor UNC Asheville | Guest Editor Dr. Charles G. James, Jr. Emeritus Professor UNC Asheville |
| Managing Editor Dr. Tiece Ruffin Interim Director, Africana Studies U.S. Fulbright Scholar & Associate Professor, UNC Asheville | Copy Editor Taylor Sykes Lecturer, Department of English, UNC Asheville | Production Editor Brandy Bourne Interim University Librarian, Ramsey Library, UNC Asheville |
Feature Articles
1-2
Blessing
Dwight B. Mullen
3
Closing Opportunity Gaps Through Love: Challenges and Opportunities
Summer Carrol, Lenoir-Rhyne University
4-15
Remove Systemic Barriers, Engage in Systemic Reform, and Implement Systemic Solutions: Transformative Justice, Good Teachers, and Identity Safe Classrooms
Tiece M. Ruffin, UNC Asheville
16-29
Addressing Opportunity Gaps in Asheville City Schools: The Role of Educational Leaders
Brandi N. Hinnant-Crawford, Western Carolina University
30-40
White Teachers as a Risk Factor in the Healthy Development of Black Youth
Itiyopiya Ewart, Expanding Equity in Our Schools
41-50
Addressing Unseen Suffering and Reimagining Possibility Through Community Engagement: Lessons from the Back of the Bus
Darrius A. Stanley, Western Carolina University
51-60
Reframing the Educational Narrative: Impacts of Culture, Implicit Biases, and Opportunities
Joseph L. Fox, Fox Management Consulting Enterprises
61-69
An Afro Humanity Approach to Education: When We Tell Our Story
Agya Boakye-Boaten, University of Cape Coast, Ghana (U.S. Fulbright Scholar,’19-20)
UNC Asheville
70-75
Community Think Tank & Consensus Forward: In Text & Images
Cortina Jenelle Caldwell, Artists Designing Evolution
76-100