CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

Personal bias
Case study How were they governed? Ethnography Research methods Research questions Historiography

Threats
Difficult to obtain data
Ethnographic interviews romanticize

Accreditation

Institutional framework?

To explore how success was defined

Validity. Triangulation

Comparison to White schools

To explore how schools developed Implications for education policy

Black school community members

Black teacher training

BLACKONLY SCHOOLS

Research purpose

Understand organization of Black-only schools Impact of

What factors influenced involvement

Conceptual framework

To develop deeper understanding

expiration of Black schools

How was success defined

Critical Race

To explore educational policies and frameworks

Private/ Public? What data defined success?

Policy Paradox
(2002)

Existing research

funding

Did geographic setting matter?

Education law and policy Ogbu Bell, 1995; Ladson-Billings,

1978, 1981,1992, 1998, 2003

1995, 1998

The study of culture