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Peer reviewedKaufman, Julie E.; Rosenbaum, James E. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1992
Education and employment outcomes are examined for African-American youth in Chicago (Illinois) whose families moved from mostly African-American urban housing projects to mostly white suburbs or mostly African-American urban areas. The suburban youth's achievement was at least as good as and sometimes better than that of their urban counterparts.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Black Youth, Educational Attainment
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
