J. L. Rury (1968) presented evidence that environmental influences are important determinants of interstate black-white score differentials on the Army alpha examination. This article generalizes and extends these findings by constructing a series of educational-quality indices that test the inferential sturdiness of Rury's findings across a…

Ten dimensions of intergroup relations are postulated: identity consciousness, validating differences, advocacy-thinking, collaboration, coping with conflict, change orientation, risk-taking, directness with language, building personal credentials and creating adaptive structures. (Author/AM)

In an investigation of racial differences on an "intelligence" test containing items specific to the Black environment, black subjects had a higher mean score than white subjects and there was no positive correlation between the Black Intelligence Test and the Shipley Institute of Living Scale, a traditional intelligence test. Thus, racial…

Compares the self-concept of Negro and white children, using data collected in a study of 16 second grade, 40 fourth grade and 24 sixth grade pupils attending two parochial elementary schools in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; an attempt was made to control socio-economic status. (JM)

The purpose of this essay is to call attention to: (1) the realization that many educational theories are, in essence, "socioeducational ideologies" functioning as apologetics of the status quo; and (2) the fact that failure to ventilate educational theorizing and research of these ideologies will make efforts to improve Black education futile.…

Presents findings of a study which investigated factors that influence the major field choices of Black college students. Reports that the students are most influenced by sex and sex role socialization, childhood and career interests, and subsequent occupational expectations. Discusses data in relation to the underrepresentation of Blacks in…

The results of a comprehensive questionnaire survey of all phases of black student life at a large predominantly white southern university, the University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill (UNC) in 1972, indicate that direct forms of discrimination as well as open discord between racial groups are essentially absent at UNC, although black students…

Briefly reviews the content and impact of Arthur R. Jensen's 1969 Harvard Educational Review (HER) article How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement, noting that "the reaction stirred by this article" in the subsequent issues of HER "was sharp." Among the critics were J. M. V. Hunt, Jerome Kagan, David Elkind, while Carl Bereiter, James…

One-hundred and four seventh and eighth grade students of State University College at Buffalo Campus School were administered the Self-Concept of Academic Ability Scale, the California Study Methods Survey, and two other attitude scales. (JM)

Six hundred and sixty junior and senior college students were respondents in this study. Most Negro respondents attended predominantly Negro colleges and universities in Georgia, Texas, Missouri, and Maryland. Most white respondents attended white institutions in Louisiana, Kansas, Arkansas, California, and Iowa. (JM)

Subjects of this study were 120 first and second grade children at three elementary schools in a middle-sized eastern city. The sample included approximately equal numbers of children by race, grade, sex, and school. (JM)

Presents two models: the first "addresses children of different socioeconomic statuses and ethnic backgrounds to assess the relative importance of attributes to children across class and caste-like lines" whereas the second "argues that the arena in which children function is composed of three parts: the family, the school and the peers."…

Analysis of data from 4,692 school districts from the 1992 census of the Office for Civil Rights finds that African American boys are subjected to physical discipline in school at excessive rates, and that a black child is more than three times as likely to be hit by a teacher. (SLD)

Examined black-white disparities in 4th, 8th, and 12th grade mathematics achievement and instruction, using data from the 1990, 1996, and 2000 National Assessment of Educational Progress. Results identified substantial black-white achievement gaps. Socioeconomic status failed to account for much of the gap. Several instruction-related factors…

Compared selected characteristics of high schools attended by students admitted to and denied admission to the University of California Berkeley (UCB) in 1998 and 1999 and California high school students overall. Discrepancies between school characteristics were found for the first two groups in 1998, but by 1999 the high school profiles of these…