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Direct linkJohnson, Odis, Jr. – Youth & Society, 2018
This study explores how linkages between adolescents' educational attitudes and achievement vary according to race, expressive culture, and neighborhood collective socialization qualities. Specifically, the study examines (a) racial differences in how males' educational attitudes relate to their academic performance (i.e.,…
Descriptors: African Americans, Whites, Males, Socialization
Shi, Qi; Watkinson, Jennifer – Professional School Counseling, 2019
Using an evidence-based framework in a mixed-method study, we examined the needs of English Language Learners (ELLs) in a middle school in the eastern United States and identified strategic intervention approaches to enhance ELL students' sense of school belonging to promote academic success. We illustrate how describing a problem as part of an…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Middle School Students, Sense of Community, Academic Achievement
Eick, Caroline – Intercultural Education, 2011
This paper examines students' evolving cross-group relationships in a comprehensive high school in Baltimore County, Maryland, USA, between 1950 and 2000. The findings of this research, situated at the intersections of two lenses of inquiry: oral historical analysis and critical studies, uncover both the power of students accustomed to integrated…
Descriptors: High Schools, Democracy, School Role, Socialization
Chiu, Donna; Beru, Yodit; Watley, Erin; Wubu, Selam; Simson, Emma; Kessinger, Robin; Rivera, Anahi; Schmidlein, Patrick; Wigfield, Allan – Journal of Educational Research, 2008
The authors examined how math track placement and gender affected 7th-grade students' self-esteem, self-concepts, and social comparisons. Participants were 170 students who completed surveys that assessed their self-esteem, academic self-concepts of ability, and the kinds of social comparisons they make. Results showed that higher track students…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Track System (Education), Gender Differences, Grade 7
Download full textAlexander, Karl L.; Griffin, Larry J. – 1975
This paper is a critique of the utility of Bidwell and Kasarda's "socio-ecological" model of school district-level academic achievement. The paper is considered to show that this model is seriously misspecified due to its omission of aggregate levels of academic ability. Based on achievement test data from the 24 school district of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Characteristics, Conceptual Schemes, Ecological Factors
Maryland State Department of Education, 2006
On June 9, 2003, the Task Force on the Education of Maryland's African-American Males was convened by the Maryland K-16 Leadership Council (chaired by the University System of Maryland Chancellor William E. Kirwan, former Maryland Acting Secretary of Higher Education John A. Sabatini, Jr., and Maryland State Superintendent of Schools Nancy S.…
Descriptors: Social Environment, School Readiness, Males, Expulsion
