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Understanding and Educating African American Children is now in its 12th printing. This edition is the best yet, and it includes a new and insightful chapter on No Child Left Behind. This book is hailed by educators all over the country as the best book available on the education of black children. No educator today should be without Understanding and educating African American Children. Every chapter is filled with insightful information that will help educators gain a better understanding of today’s black child and do a much better job in helping that child understand himself, his situation, his potential, and the role that education can play in determining the course of his life.
What’s Missing in the Education of African-American Children: The Real Reasons Behind the Gap is the best, clearest, and most thorough explanation of the educational and cultural condition of black children to date, and explains how that cultural conditioning has contributed to the dismal educational state in which black children find themselves.  This book explains the academic gap in a way that no other publication does. It points out the role that parents, students, educators, politicians and communities played in creating the gap and explains what each can do to narrow it. This book is statistical based and supported, but is written in language that just about anyone can understand. No educator, parent, or citizen who is concerned about education and the future of the country should be without What's Missing in the Education of African-American Children: the Real Reasons behind the Gap.
Now in it's third printing, A Little Book for Big People, is a beautifully written, powerfully inspiring book that everyone should read. It transcends race, class, gender, and generations, and reaches out to touch everybody in a warm and tender way. From the very first chapter, "Take Charge of Your Life," to the last, "Pick Your Own Cotton," you will be inspired and empowered by this book. A Little Book For Big People is about life, and the beauty and power of the human spirit to triumph over adversity. It is about laughter and kindness, faith and hope; the values that we cherish, and the dreams we pursue.
A Student's Guide To Success In School is a handbook on student success. It is a clear, down to earth talk with students about successful and unsuccessful school behaviors. It is simple enough for Junior high students to understand and sophisticated enough for college students to appreciate. It would be great for students entering high school. Bulk rates available to schools. Call or email for details.
Black Children, White Schools: Keys To Success. Black children who go to predominantly white schools with the right attitude and work ethic can be just as successful there as white children. This book will help black children and their parents develop the right attitude about predominantly white schools, white teachers, education, and the role they need to play in their own success. Eventually black children should see all public schools as American schools and see themselves as American citizens who have as much right to go there as anyone else, and as much responsibility to do the right thing. This book gives great advice on how to do the right thing and get the right results at a predominantly white school, or at any school. It would be great for high school students, their teachers, and parents.
Parenting Toward School Success is an insightful look at the responsibilities of parents as it relates to their children's education.  Mr. Jenkins is uniquely qualified to write on this subject, having worked with so many students for so many years as a distinguished high school educator.
How to Rear Inferior Black Children, A Recipe For Raising Thugs is a satire on the child rearing practices of far too many black parents. Many black people act as if the bad black children that many of us are so disappointed with came from another planet. But the truth is that the Black children who are causing so much trouble in this country are home grown. They were born to black parents, grew up in black households, nurtured in black communities, and are reflecting that which was a part of their development. After all, "A tree is known by the fruit it bears." Furthermore, the black children today, regardless of what social rank they come from, are the best clothed, fed, housed, dressed, and the best entertained black children in the history of the country. Evidently parents approve of their behavior since they are willing to finance that behavior so well. How to Rear Inferior Black Children is a must read for those who want inferior black children and a more important read for those who don’t. Persons who read How to Rear Inferior Black Children owe it to themselves to read its companion book, Parenting Toward School Success.