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Olzak, Susan; And Others – American Journal of Sociology, 1994
Reviews research on the impact of efforts to achieve school desegregation. Argues that increased interracial exposure in schools and neighborhoods triggers racial and ethnic conflict. Reviews recent research and asserts that school desegregation significantly raised rates of protests against busing. (CFR)
Descriptors: Busing, Conflict, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation
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Schneider, Barbara; Shouse, Roger – Journal of Negro Education, 1992
Discusses finding of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 with respect to minority students (children of color) in independent nonpublic schools. Helping African-American students feel less like outsiders at majority-white independent schools is discussed, and the role of the teacher is emphasized. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Black Students, Cohort Analysis
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Vega, William A.; And Others – American Journal of Public Health, 1993
Analyzes risk factors for drug use among 6,760 sixth- and seventh-grade Cuban, other Hispanic, African-American, and white non-Hispanic males in Miami (Florida). The cumulative prevalence of risk factors is monotonically related to drug use, but ethnic and racial differences in risk factor profiles suggest cultural differences in predictive value.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Students, Cubans, Cultural Differences
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Schack, Gina D.; And Others – Equity and Excellence in Education, 1993
The view of educational equity underlying the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) is apparent in the Kentucky primary education program. In addition to race, class, and gender equity concerns, the KERA primary program encompasses equity for gifted and special needs learners and teacher education for equity. (SLD)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Change, Elementary School Students
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O'Brien, Virginia; Martinez-Pons, Manual; Kopala, Mary – Journal of Educational Research, 1999
Surveyed 11th graders to examine the relations among mathematics self-efficacy (SE), gender, ethnic identity, and career interests (CI) in mathematics and science. Researchers also examined socioeconomic status (SES) and academic achievement. Science CI was predicted solely by science-mathematics SE. SE was predicted by academic performance and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Catholic Schools, Ethnic Groups
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Dixon-Floyd, Izola; Johnson, Steve W. – Journal of Educational Research, 1997
Identified the effects of gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status (SES), and basic skills performance on grade failure, course failure, scores on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills, and attendance of middle school students placed in behavioral classrooms. Computerized data from two schools indicated that SES and basic skills performance…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Achievement Tests, Attendance, Basic Skills
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Lee, Okhee; Deaktor, Rachael A.; Hart, Juliet E.; Cuevas, Peggy; Enders, Craig – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2005
This research examined the impact of the first-year implementation of an instructional intervention to promote achievement and equity in science and literacy for culturally and linguistically diverse elementary students. The research addressed three areas: (a) overall science and literacy achievement, (b) achievement gaps among demographic…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 3, Intervention, Urban Schools
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Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Markman, Lisa B. – Future of Children, 2005
The authors describe various parenting behaviors, such as nurturance, discipline, teaching, and language use, and explain how researchers measure them. They note racial and ethnic variations in several behaviors. Most striking are differences in language use. Black and Hispanic mothers talk less with their young children than do white mothers and…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, School Readiness, Discipline, Mothers
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Renfro, Joy; Huebner, Ruth; Callahan, Connie; Ritchey, Becky – Journal of School Violence, 2003
Despite the fact that many incidents of extreme violence have taken place in rural areas there is still some resistance on the part of rural school administrators to admit that violence is a problem in their schools. This article provides a comparison of rural and urban student and staff self-report of school violence (perpetration, victimization…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Rural Schools, Violence, Rural Areas
Olszewski-Kubilius, Paula – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2003
In this article, I present a framework that can be used in our work with special groups of gifted students--one that recognizes the effects of socioeconomic status (SES), racism, and other limiting factors on educational achievement and provides a blueprint for interventions. This framework stems from Urie Bronfrenbrenner's ecological theory of…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Cultural Influences, Minority Groups, Program Development
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Holzer, Harry J.; Quigley, John M.; Raphael, Steven – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2003
A recent expansion of the San Francisco Bay Area's heavy rail system represents an exogenous change in the accessibility of inner-city minority communities to a concentrated suburban employment center. We evaluate this natural experiment by conducting a two-wave longitudinal survey of firms, with the first wave of interviews conducted immediately…
Descriptors: Personnel Selection, Employment, Minority Groups, Longitudinal Studies
Shannon, G. Sue; Bylsma, Pete – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2006
The federal requirements of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) have placed a new focus on increasing graduation rates and reducing dropout rates. While the dropout problem has generated research and new programs over the last 30 years, the dropout rate has remained relatively unchanged. Students drop out of school for many reasons, and the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, School Restructuring, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate
Vanderhaar, Judi; Munoz, Marco A. – Online Submission, 2006
No Child Left Behind legislation has triggered increased attention toward closing the achievement gap. Of particular importance is the need to improve African American male outcomes in education. The Jefferson County Public School System (JCPS) has embarked on one such effort with the implementation of the Street Academy Pilot Program. Evaluation…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Summative Evaluation, Reading Achievement, Pilot Projects
Neild, Ruth Curran; Balfanz, Robert – Philadelphia Youth Network, 2006
This report uses a unique set of data obtained from the Kids Integrated Data System (KIDS), which is housed at the University of Pennsylvania's Cartographic Modeling Laboratory. The KIDS system merges individual-level data on young people from the School District of Philadelphia and the city's social service agencies, including the Department of…
Descriptors: Dropouts, High School Students, High School Freshmen, Transfer Students
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Lubienski, Sarah Theule – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2006
The purpose of this article is two-fold. First, it reports on a study of the distribution of reform-oriented instructional practices among Black, White and Hispanic students, and the relationship between those practices and student achievement. The study identified many similarities in instruction across student groups, but there were some…
Descriptors: Teacher Responsibility, Educational Change, Change Strategies, Hispanic American Students
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