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Article: Perceived levels of cultural competence through social work education and professional development for urban school social workers.
- Article from:
- Journal of Social Work Education
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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THE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS of the nation's changing demographics challenge school-based practitioners to keep up with the growing diversity found in classroom settings. This challenge is greatest in urban school settings where low-income African American children are the largest minority student population (U.S. Census Bureau, 2002). According to Losen and Orfield (2002), urban African American youth have higher dropout rates and school suspension rates, lower levels of academic achievement, and higher levels of diagnosed mental health disorders than any other ethnic group. In order to raise academic achievement and reduce antisocial outcomes among urban Black youth, ...