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Jones, Reginald L.; Smith, Yvonne – Journal of Black Studies, 1980
Examined the extent to which Black children perceive pejorative labels such as "slow learner,""culturally disadvantaged," and "culturally deprived" as being associated with themselves. Found that these labels were indeed perceived as being negative but that they were not associated with racial group membership. (Author/BE)
Descriptors: Black Stereotypes, Black Youth, Children, Labeling (of Persons)

Cadwallader, Tom W.; Farmer, Thomas W.; Cairns, Beverley D.; Leung, Man-Chi; Clemmer, Jason T.; Gut, Dianne M.; Reese, Le'Roy E. – Journal of School Psychology, 2002
Reports on the social relations of rural African American early adolescents and the initial impact of a multilevel intervention program aimed at enhancing the productive school engagement of at-risk youth. Students' school social relations and risk status were used in assessment. Four subgroups were identified: Model, Aggressive, Troubled, and…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Early Adolescents, Elementary Education, High Risk Students

Goetz, Judith Preissle; Breneman, E. Anne Rowley – Elementary School Journal, 1988
Uses Boocock's model of the social context of education to compare divergent climates for Black students in two rural southern elementary schools. In both schools Black and White teachers and students use an assumed color blindness and a preoccupation with subject matter to mask differential treatment of Black students. (SKC)
Descriptors: Black Youth, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Minority Group Children

Howell, Frank M. – Youth and Society, 1981
Tests the hypothesis that migrants from their communities of origin have higher status aspirations or greater prospects for socioeconomic success. Finds only modest evidence to support this hypothesis among rural youth, and reports that only among White males are occupational and residential aspirations linked. (Author/ST)
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Birth Rate, Black Youth, Life Style

Lee, Courtland C. – Journal of Negro Education, 1984
Students who score highest on the California Achievement Tests in reading and mathematics come from close, supportive family networks with strong educational and social direction from parents. These students also have positive educational experiences, highly developed social networks outside of their families, and identify strongly with positive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Family, Black Youth, Educational Attitudes

Aaron, Robert L.; And Others – Reading Improvement, 1980
Reports that the Estes Attitude Scale suffers from the influence of cultural biases that make it inadequate to measure attitude about reading among low-income, Black students in grades three through seven in the rural southern United States. (FL)
Descriptors: Black Youth, Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education, Measurement Techniques

Brody, Gene H.; And Others – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1995
Tested a family process model that links family financial resources and parental educational attainment to academic competence during early adolescence on 90 rural African American youths ages 9-12 and their parents. Parental educational attainment was linked with family financial resources and with parental involvement with the adolescent's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Achievement, Black Education, Black Family