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Download full textHenderson, Ronald D. – 1974
This study is designed to compare the school normative climate of white and black urban elementary schools relatively matched on socioeconomic status (SES) and achievement. With this design the researcher sought to: (1) find if there are differences in normative climate between white and black schools; and (2) generate further tentative insight…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Black Students, Comparative Analysis
Beers, Joan S. – 1973
Do varying racial and social school mixtures significantly relate to self-esteem of black and white fifth-grade pupils? The purpose of the present study was to examine several facets of this question. Interrelationships were studied among pupil's self-esteem and the following demographic variables: school's racial composition, pupil's sex, pupil's…
Descriptors: Black Students, Desegregation Effects, Elementary School Students, Psychoeducational Methods
Davis, Junius A.; Kerner, Susan E. – 1971
The levels of performance on tests of black versus white students in 15 North Carolina public universities were examined; the validities of test scores and high school grades for predicting performance in college were also studied. Experimental variables obtained for each student included, as predictors, the SAT-V and SAT-M scores, and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis
Wilson, Alan B. – 1969
This monograph, a revision of a report prepared pursuant to a contract with the Commission on Civil Rights, discusses neighborhoods and schools, primary school variation in cognitive development, father absence and school achievement, neighborhood and school segregation, later effects of school segregation, self-concept, aspirations, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Cognitive Development, Fatherless Family
Cook, Katherine M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1939
Americans are justly proud of the Panama Canal, the first and the most significant of our larger ventures as a Nation in commercial engineering. Two successful means of trans-Isthmian travel are now in operation--one by rail, established with the completion of the Panama Railroad, and one by water with the completion of the Canal. The community is…
Descriptors: Transportation, Public Education, Engineering, Educational History
Peer reviewedEnsign, Jacque – Journal of Negro Education, 2002
Documents the higher educational and professional attainment of black and white students from two segregated, one-room schools in rural Virginia in the 1930s-40s. Data from life histories and interviews indicated that black students' inferior educational opportunities were offset somewhat by the values of their immediate community. Community…
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Students, Career Planning, Community Influence
Peer reviewedSo, Alvin Y. – Journal of Black Studies, 1992
Using data from the High School and Beyond survey, describes similarities and differences between African-American and white schools with regard to ethnic segregation, facilities, teacher quality, curriculum, school discipline, and educational achievement. An African-American school is defined as a high school with 70 percent or more…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Institutions, Black Students, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedRoscigno, Vincent J. – Social Forces, 1998
Uses matched data from the restricted-use National Educational Longitudinal Survey and the Common Core of Data to hierarchically model the simultaneous influences of family/peer and educational institutional processes on the Black-White gap in achievement among high school students. Suggests strong linkages between family/peer group attributes and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Educationally Disadvantaged, Family Influence
GARVEY, CATHERINE; MCFARLANE, PAUL T. – 1968
LANGUAGE PATTERNS OF BALTIMORE FIFTH-GRADERS FROM FOUR DISADVANTAGED, INNER-CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS--TWO WHITE AND TWO NEGRO--AND FROM ONE WHITE MIDDLE-CLASS SUBURBAN SCHOOL WERE EXAMINED (1) TO IDENTIFY SUBGROUPS WHOSE LANGUAGE BEHAVIOR DIFFERS SYSTEMATICALLY FROM EACH OTHER AND FROM STANDARD ENGLISH, (2) TO GATHER INFORMATION ON THE LANGUAGE…
Descriptors: Blacks, Dialects, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged
Harootunian, Berj; Morse, Richard J. – 1968
A series of instruments designed to elicit a number of cognitive and noncognitive constructs were administered to three groups of ninth-grade students--segregated Negroes, desegregated Negroes, and whites. The Negro students had chosen their school under a freedom-of-choice plan in Kent County, Delaware; i.e., some were going to the local high…
Descriptors: Black Students, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Comparative Analysis
Lee, Chungmei – Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, 2006
The Denver Public Schools (DPS) provide a unique opportunity to study the dynamics of school segregation within the context of rapid demographic changes and key policy changes. This paper, the first of two reports, focuses on the dynamics of segregation, demographic changes, and implications for graduation rates in the Denver Public Schools. It…
Descriptors: Racial Factors, Hispanic American Students, Public Schools, Graduation Rate
Korris, Steven J. – 1994
This 1994 report presents findings on Madison Metropolitan School District's dual system of education for White and African American students. Among the study's findings are the following: (1) African American dropouts outnumbered African American graduates; (2) students from low-income families scored higher on standard tests than African…
Descriptors: Black Students, Black Teachers, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Trent, William T. – 1981
This paper examines academic program, course enrollments, and extracurricular memberships in racially and ethnically integrated high schools with the aim of determining the extent of participation by black and white students within schools. The goal of the study was to ascertain whether students are resegregated in schools through these…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Black Students, Desegregation Effects, Extracurricular Activities
Crain, Robert L. – 1984
The public controversy surrounding recent government proposals for supporting private schools through tuition tax credits has prompted an interest in studying the impact of private schooling on racial segregation in education. This report examines the degree of black-white segregation in the Catholic schools in the Chicago and Cleveland…
Descriptors: Black Education, Black Students, Catholic Schools, Classroom Desegregation
Hoke, K. J. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1916
The progress of children through the grades of the public schools and the stage of advancement at which they quit school are matters of great educational and economic importance, and enlist the interest of both school officers and taxpayers. If many children fail to accomplish any part of the work of the school in the time prescribed, it may be…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Elementary Schools, Grade Repetition, Student Promotion
