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Download full textWilson-Jones, Linda – 2003
This study investigated factors that promote and inhibit the academic success of elementary African American males in grades 3 through 6 in a rural school in Mississippi. The qualitative study analyzed interview data gathered in 6 face-to-face interviews with 16 African American males over a 3-month period in the 2002-2003 academic year. All…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Environmental Influences, Family Influence
Broadnax, Jannie; Wright, Doris J.; Martin, Rhonda – 1998
Researchers estimate that more than half of the nation's six million young drinkers have problems with alcohol. Of those young drinkers, some reside in rural communities and towns. Little is known about how teen drinking occurs among rural teens. A pilot study was undertaken to discover how teens in rural settings are involved with drinking.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Students, Drinking, High School Seniors
Leach, Mozelle P. – 1987
In order to investigate the efficacy of a decade-long language arts tutoring program, a study compared students' responses to a survey of their participation in and attitudes about the program with their Reading, Language, Math, and Total scores on the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT) and other tests. The tutoring program assigned college students…
Descriptors: Black Students, College Students, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Heggoy, Synnove J.; And Others – 1995
This study of seven gifted female first-year college students (three African-American and four Euro-American) who had graduated from public high schools in rural south Georgia investigated their perceptions of their gifted programs in elementary and secondary school. Three data sources were used: a self-report participant questionnaire, follow-up…
Descriptors: Black Students, College Freshmen, Curriculum Enrichment, Elementary Secondary Education
Falk, William W.; Cosby, Arthur G. – 1973
This study seeks an answer to one broad question, "Do black children who attend racially desegregated schools, have educational aspirations and expectations which are significantly different (either higher or lower) from black children who attend racially segregated schools?" To facilitate this, the study not only examines the…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Black Students, Desegregation Effects, Educational Attitudes
Kuvlesky, William P.; Dietrich, Katheryn Thomas – 1973
The military orientations of rural East Texas black and white high school students interviewed in 1966 were very similar; those of metropolitan and nonmetropolitan youth also did not differ much. Since then, status projections of Texas youth have been extended by adding a sample of Mexican American sophomores (1966) to compare with the East Texas…
Descriptors: Black Students, Comparative Analysis, Ethnic Groups, High School Students
