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Terzian, Sevan G. – History of Education Quarterly, 2021
This essay examines the first detailed study of gifted African American youth: Lillian Steele Proctor's master's thesis from the late 1920s on Black children in Washington, DC. Unlike formative research on gifted children by educational psychologists, Proctor's investigation emphasized children's experiences at school, home, and community in…
Descriptors: African American Students, Academically Gifted, Racial Bias, Racial Discrimination
Hanselman, Paul; Fiel, Jeremy E. – Grantee Submission, 2017
Persistent school segregation may allow advantaged groups to hoard educational opportunities and consign minority students to lower-quality educational experiences. Although minority students are concentrated in low-achieving schools, relatively little previous research directly links segregation to measures of school quality based on student…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, School Segregation, Access to Education, Educational Opportunities