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Peer reviewedCartledge, Gwendolyn; Sentelle, Julie; Loe, Scott; Lambert, M. Charles; Reed, Evette Simmons – Journal of Negro Education, 2001
Conducted an 18-month intervention for African American inner city elementary school students in a gifted classroom. The intervention, supported by university-based coaches, involved positively phrased classroom behavioral expectations, social skills training, structural/systematic instruction, and preplanned positive and negative consequences for…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Black Students, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedFang, Xiaoyi; Stanton, Bonita; Li, Xiaoming; Feigelman, Susan; Baldwin, Robert M. – Youth & Society, 1998
Studied the similarity of behaviors among group members and the effects of a risk-reduction intervention aimed at AIDS/HIV prevention with 76 groups of African-American urban adolescents (n=382 youth) studied over 18 months. Data support the usefulness of HIV prevention through groups of friends. (SLD)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, At Risk Persons, Behavior Patterns, Black Students
Taylor, George R. – 1997
This social skills curriculum has been developed as a guide to assist educators in instructing young African-American males how to determine what behaviors are acceptable and what are not acceptable in our society. Parents and other family members will also find these strategies useful for followup activities. The book does not address all…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textHudley, Cynthia Ann – 1992
A study of highly aggressive African American boys sought to understand the effect of an attribution retraining program designed to reduce aggressive males' tendency to attribute hostile intentions to peers following ambiguous, negative interactions. One hundred and one African American aggressive and non-aggressive elementary school boys in Los…
Descriptors: Aggression, Attribution Theory, Behavior Change, Black Students
Kusimo, Patricia S.; Carter, Carolyn S.; Keyes, Marian C. – 1999
A study looked at how a science and mathematics intervention program for middle school girls, the "Voices" program, affected African American students and their families. Effects of the program on academic achievement and participation and persistence in school were also studied. The Voices program was implemented in one urban and one rural county…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, Adolescents, Black Students
Peer reviewedBergin, David A.; And Others – Urban Review, 1992
Describes the Hilltop Emergent Literacy Project (HELP) in Toledo (Ohio), an afterschool educational program for poor, mostly African American, students in kindergarten through grade 3, and evaluates its effects on 12 kindergartners in comparison with a control group of 12 kindergartners. Program effectiveness is supported. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, After School Programs, Black Students, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedFerrer-Wreder, Laura; Lorente, Carolyn Css; Kurtner, William; Briones, Ervin; Bussell, Janene; Berman, Steven; Arrufat, Ondina – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2002
Tested school-based intervention in the developmental domains of skills/knowledge, attitudes, orientations, and exploration/commitment for urban minority youth. Quantitative results indicated positive gains on multiple indices; qualitative assessment illustrated positive effects of intervention and the possible obstacles to intervention efficacy.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Students, Cognitive Style, High Risk Students
Peterson, Reece L., Ed.; Ishii-Jordan, Sharon, Ed. – 1994
This book examines the effect of racial, ethnic, and cultural factors on the process of identifying and serving students with emotional or behavioral disorders. The book acknowledges the importance of diversity among students with behavioral disorders, and the need to consider their diversity in identifying their behaviors and intervening to…
Descriptors: Aggression, American Indians, Asian Americans, Behavior Disorders
