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Peer reviewedBiggs, Shirley A. – Negro Educational Review, 1992
Examines problems that afflict African-American males in education. Looks at the current suggestion that separate education for African-American males may be a solution. Argues that separation is not the answer because of a historical legacy of separation. Suggests alternatives including after-school and weekend all-male clubs and activities. (JB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Achievement, Black Community, Black Education
Direct linkArmor, David J. – Academic Questions, 2006
"Brown v. Board of Education" only presumed to eliminate the "de jure" apartheid that existed in 1954. It was never intended to resolve the "de facto" gap in minority achievement that still faces education policymakers today. Sociologist David J. Armor goes beyond "Brown" to identify a set of definite risk…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Racial Segregation, Academic Achievement, Underachievement
Download full textBlanc, Maurice – 1988
In European cities, ethnic minorities concentrate in physically and socially dilapidated areas, according to two different patterns. In the traditional pattern, ethnic minorities (who are among the lowest socioeconomic status groups) concentrate in the old and dilapidated buildings in inner city areas. Because inner city areas are becoming…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Cultural Differences, Ethnicity
Lauder, Hugh; Hughes, David – 1999
Throughout the English-speaking world, and now Western Europe and parts of East Asia, parental choice and educational markets are being seen by politicians and policy advisors as the panacea to problems of low educational standards and social exclusion. This book tests the key assumptions underlying the faith in markets by linking an analysis of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Yancey, William L.; Saporito, Salvatore J. – 1995
This paper describes the results of research examining the racial and socioeconomic segregation of public schools in two very different cities, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) and Houston (Texas). Factors that explain the degree of racial and economic segregation and the consequences of this segregation for student academic achievement were examined.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education, Inner City
Heyns, Barbara; Cohen, David K. – 1971
The present research was conducted to determine the relative importance of a variety of background variables and school effects on curriculum assignment in public high schools. The emphasis was on the sociological processes of selection and differentiation within schools, and the role of education in facilitating or blocking social mobility. A…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Curriculum Development, Equal Education
Mosteller, Frederick, Ed.; Moynihan, Daniel P., Ed.
In this volume are papers derived from the Harvard University Faculty Seminar on the Coleman Report. The Carnegie Corporation provided funds to support a faculty seminar for the academic year 1966-1967. Out of this seminar developed this present collection of articles written by a number of outstanding educators bearing on the main themes of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Academic Standards, Civil Rights
Smelser, Neil J., Ed.; Wilson, William Julius, Ed.; Mitchell, Faith, Ed. – 2001
This collection of papers explores past and current trends among African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and Native Americans in the context of a white majority. The papers, presented at the 1998 Research Conference on Racial Trends in the United States, provide analyses of racial and social dynamics and recommendations for future…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affirmative Action, American Indians, Asian Americans
Hwang, Sean-Shong; And Others – 1983
A longitudinal study of racial/ethnic residential segregation in 27 central Texas cities used data from the 1970 and 1980 censuses to investigate effects of 3 socioeconomic indicators (education, income, occupation) and other variables (age of city, city growth rate, percent of Black and Spanish population) on changes in Black-White,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blacks, Community Change, Comparative Analysis
Sanday, Peggy R.; And Others – 1978
This report focuses on the education of ninth and twelfth grade minority students living in an urban environment. An explanatory model is employed to analyze each minority group separately. Both the external conditions in which the children live and school conditions and resources that may constrain or facilitate learning are examined in detail.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Needs, Educationally Disadvantaged
DENTLER, ROBERT A.; WARSHAUER, MARY ELLEN
ANALYSIS OF THE ETHNIC COMPOSITION AND POPULATION MOVEMENTS OF BUFFALO SHOW THAT IT IS A DEMOGRAPHICALLY DECLINING AND HIGHLY SEGREGATED CITY. FOR ANALYTICAL PURPOSES, THE CITY IS DIVIDED INTO THREE MAJOR AREAS--(1) AREA I, HIGH PERCENTAGE NEGRO, (2) AREA II, MIXED POPULATION, AND (3) AREA III, HIGH PERCENTAGE WHITE. SINCE SUBURBS AND A HIGH…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Population Trends, Black Teachers, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedTaeuber, Karl E.; James, David R. – Sociology of Education, 1983
Parochial and other private secondary schools in the United States enroll disproportionately few Blacks. Coleman, Hoffer, and Kilgore discounted this segregation. However, their analysis of within-district segregation is inappropriate and misleading. If future analysis of an appropriate data set is undertaken, standard analysis-of-variance methods…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Catholic Schools, Educational Research, Measurement Techniques
Rossell, Christine H., Ed.; Armor, David J., Ed.; Walberg, Herbert J., Ed. – 2002
This book presents a collection of papers that examine progress since 1954 in achieving racial equality in education and how to most effectively and efficiently achieve the promise of Brown v. Board of Education. The 11 papers are: (1) "Introduction: Assessing the Promise of 'Brown'" (Christine H. Rossell, David J. Armor, and Herbert J.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Change Strategies, Court Litigation
Horn, Jerry G. – 2000
This case study examines the history and current circumstances of education in Humphreys County (Mississippi) in the context of its participation in the Delta Rural Systemic Initiative (RSI), which aims to improve science and mathematics achievement through systemic reform. This report describes the county's history, demography, and economic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Education, Case Studies, Community Characteristics
Livingston, Donald R.; Livingston, Sharon – 2003
This study analyzed data from statewide criterion referenced competency tests (CRCTs), used to determine whether a child is retained in grade, investigating whether trends and differences in scores across Georgia for students from similar family backgrounds could be linked to failing this test twice in elementary school. The study explored whether…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Elementary Education, Family Influence
