It is common for teachers in all districts across the United States to give homework to their students. Given the rising numbers of children from nondominant backgrounds in American schools, a question that merits consideration is how children from nondominant backgrounds--particularly in large urban centers--are impacted by teachers' homework…

Discusses issues concerning teacher evaluation and the evaluation of minority group teachers, in particular. Describes an alternative teacher evaluation strategy used in two Utah school district teacher career ladder evaluation systems. (FMW)

The differences in income, crime, health, mental health, and substance use among high school dropouts, GED recipients, and high school graduates are investigated. The study sample is drawn from the Chicago Longitudinal Study (CLS), an ongoing investigation of a panel of low-income minority children who grew up in the inner city. After controlling…

Suggests that there is another way of attempting to understand the value conflict within an inner city school, and that is to recognize the dissonance about values within each student. (Author/AM)

Assessed the effects of student religious commitment on the academic achievement of Black and Hispanic children using data from the National Education Longitudinal Survey(1998-1992). Religiously committed students performed better than their less religious counterparts. Discusses the significance of these results. (SLD)

How do marginalized parents construct their role in promoting their children's access to educational opportunity? What lessons might their experience have for our understanding of parent involvement beyond the parameters of traditional models? This qualitative case study examined the beliefs, goals, and practices of 16 working-class African…

Reports on the size and ethnic composition of 66 public school Boards of Education school systems enrolling 50,000 or more students. Presents information on the number of minorities and women on these boards and the occupations of board members. (APM)

Investigated the relationship between youth participation in extracurricular activities and a greater sense of school connection, particularly for non-European American students. Surveys of secondary school students from inner city, urban, and suburban neighborhoods indicated that students who participated in extracurricular activities, regardless…

Provides an understanding of the role that sharing personal accounts of the experience of race, class, and gender oppression in and outside of the academy has played in the lives of two female college faculty members. Represents an interpretive composition of the evolution of the faculty members' collective consciousness. (SLD)

The overrepresentation of ethnic minority students, particularly African American males, in the exclusionary discipline consequences of suspension and expulsion has been consistently documented during the past three decades. Children of poverty and those with academic problems are also overrepresented in such discipline consequences. Sadly, a…

Creating safe and productive environments with a diverse student population requires more than the strategies recommended in the original classroom-management literature. Drawing from the literature on culturally responsive classroom management, psychologically supportive classroom environments, and building resilience, the authors describe the…

The past research indicates no strong relationship between the minority individual's ingroup identification and his outgroup attitude, nor does it support the contention that strong ingroup identification leads to a positive or negative outgroup orientation. (Author)

Parental choice of schools results in racial isolation or effective integration, depending on how choice is used and regulated. The role of choice in desegregation plans is compared. The Buffalo plan is hailed as most successful in that it desegregated the schools, distributed costs and benefits fairly, and strengthened education. (VM)

Reviews prior and current educational practices affecting children from poor and minority families. Discusses educational philosophies underlying the delivery of educational services to these children and concepts of equal educational opportunity and proposes a model for quality education in the 1980s. (GC)