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Peer reviewedWashington, Julie A.; Craig, Holly K. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1992
This study of 105 low-income, urban, African-American preschool and kindergarten children found that the performance of most of the children on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised was more than one standard deviation below the mean. Findings indicated that the test was not appropriate for use with this population. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Black Students, Diagnostic Tests, Kindergarten Children, Language Handicaps
Peer reviewedLavin, David E.; Crook, David B. – American Journal of Education, 1990
Finds that open admissions at City University of New York in the early 1970s resulted in a dramatic increase in degree attainment by Blacks and Hispanics. Concludes that more flexible aid programs, improved high school curricula, and stronger preparation in two-year colleges can increase future attainments and narrow educational inequalities. (DM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, College Students, Differences
Download full textRollock, David; Haynes, Norris M. – 1986
The Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) was developed to evaluate the study and learning behavior of urban Black and Hispanic students in ways not measured by existing study skills instruments. The instrument attempts to deal effectively with "non-intellectual" factors identified previously as having an impact on study and learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Measures, Black Students, High Schools
Hayes, Floyd W., III – 1989
Do social policy intellectuals and their research help to strengthen quality education? Was the 1954 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, which relied heavily on social science research, flawed in its reasoning on school desegregation, equal educational opportunity, and quality education for African Americans?…
Descriptors: Black Students, Court Litigation, Educational Quality, Equal Education
Peer reviewedCoultas, Valerie – Gender and Education, 1989
Discusses ways that social psychologists have misunderstood the self-esteem of young Black women. Challenges the paternalistic, classist, and racist assumptions that have prevailed. Teachers can encourage young Black students' high expectations for themselves by rejecting a deficit model and developing an anti-racist approach in classroom and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Black Teachers, Cultural Pluralism
Guerrero, Edna S.; Kerr, Oliver – 1987
A 35 percent increase in total enrollment in the Dade County Public Schools is projected for the year 2000. The projections are based on population projections developed by the Metro-Dade County Planning Department for the county's continuing urban development and growth management programs. Dade County Public Schools in cooperation with…
Descriptors: Black Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Projections, Enrollment Rate
