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Bullard, Sara, Ed. – Teaching Tolerance, 1993
Explores the childhood and adolescence of the Hispanic American poet Luis Rodriguez, who grew up in Los Angeles (California) and was involved in gangs with other children of Mexican immigrants. Rodriguez's autobiography is offered so that adolescents, including his own son, may learn from his experience. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autobiographies, Children, Delinquency
Download full textHarris (Louis) and Associates, Inc., New York, NY. – 1994
A pilot survey was conducted to explore why some young African American men living in cities stay in high school and why others drop out. Between October 1993 and March 1994, face-to-face interviews were conducted with 360 young black men aged 17 to 22, randomly drawn from census tracts in New York (New York), Chicago (Illinois), Los Angeles…
Descriptors: Blacks, Dropouts, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment
Boyle, Kathleen – 1992
The lives and places in society of urban youth at risk of dropping out of the Los Angeles (California) Unified School District schools are explored through interviews of adolescents whom the author met when doing field work in Los Angeles County. Data come from interviews conducted in the course of the 1991 Drug Use Forecasting Study (DUF) and the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Students, Child Abuse, Crack
