Henfield, M. S., Washington, A. R., & Byrd, J. A. (2014). Addressing Academic and Opportunity Gaps Impacting Gifted Black Males Implications for School Counselors.Gifted Child Today, 37(3), 147 – 154. To date, counseling is far behind many other helping professions in terms of producing scholarly literature highlighting and informing gifted… read more
Masculinity Identity Development and Its Relevance to Supporting Talented Black Males
Henfield, M. S. (2012). Masculinity Identity Development and Its Relevance to Supporting Talented Black Males. Gifted Child Today, 35(3), 179-186. The purpose of the article is to provide a brief introduction to Black male masculine identity development and relate it to the field of gifted education. It will begin with… read more
Special Issue: Meeting the Needs of Gifted and High-Achieving Black Males in Urban Schools
Henfield, M. S. (2013). Special Issue: Meeting the Needs of Gifted and High-Achieving Black Males in Urban Schools.The Urban Review, 45(4), 395-398. On average, no other group in the US is as entrapped by the vicious cycle leading to abysmal life outcomes (achievement gap, expectation gap, opportunity gap, and so… read more
How Black Boys with Disabilities End up in Honors Classes while Others without Disabilities End up in Special Education
Toldson, I. A. (2011). How Black Boys with Disabilities End up in Honors Classes while Others without Disabilities End up in Special Education. Journal of Negro Education, 80(4), 439-443. For the data presented in this report, the author analyzed 17,587 Black, Hispanic, and White male and female students (Black males;… read more