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Early, Diane M.; Iruka, Iheoma U.; Ritchie, Sharon; Barbarin, Oscar A.; Winn, Donna-Marie C.; Crawford, Gisele M.; Frome, Pamela M.; Clifford, Richard M.; Burchinal, Margaret; Howes, Carollee; Bryant, Donna M.; Pianta, Robert C. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2010
The current paper considers how children spend their time in state-funded pre-kindergarten programs and how time use relates to ethnicity, gender, and family income, based on the assumption that how time is spent in pre-kindergarten is relevant for the programs' success in narrowing achievement gaps. Classroom observations of 2061 children in 652…
Descriptors: African American Children, Ethnicity, Family Income, Preschool Education
Reinke, Wendy M.; Herman, Keith C.; Petras, Hanno; Ialongo, Nicholas S. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2008
The aim of this study was to identify classes of children at entry into first grade with different patterns of academic and behavior problems. A latent class analysis was conducted with a longitudinal community sample of 678 predominantly low-income African American children. Results identified multiple subclasses of children, including a class…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Behavior Problems, Academic Failure, African American Children
Stockman, Ida J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2008
Purpose: This study aimed to show (a) whether the minimal competence core (MCC) of consonants used by African American preschoolers in I. Stockman (2006) can be observed in a larger group of children using shorter and more controlled speech samples and (b) whether the MCC pass/fail outcomes are differentially related to performance on selected…
Descriptors: African American Students, African American Children, Phonetics, Phonemes
Cox Edmondson, Vickie – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2009
Young Black males are an at-risk group for earning a living through illegal activities in the U.S. As with most at-risk groups, concerted efforts have been made to help prepare them to become viable contributors and valued members of society. Anecdotal evidence shows that faculty members have also tried to reach out and influence young Black males…
Descriptors: African American Children, Youth, Males, At Risk Persons
Morrow, Connie E.; Accornero, Veronica H.; Xue, Lihua; Manjunath, Sudha; Culbertson, Jan L.; Anthony, James C.; Bandstra, Emmalee S. – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2009
We estimated childhood risk of developing selected DSM-IV Disorders, including Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), and Separation Anxiety Disorder (SAD), in children with prenatal cocaine exposure (PCE). Children were enrolled prospectively at birth (n = 476) with prenatal drug exposures documented…
Descriptors: Cocaine, Behavior Disorders, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Pregnancy
Brooks, Wanda; McNair, Jonda C. – Review of Educational Research, 2009
This article provides a review of research on African American children's literature by synthesizing the growing body of textual and reader response research conducted across the past several decades. The literature presented in this article cuts across the disciplines of education as well as English and library science. Using the selective…
Descriptors: African American Children, Childrens Literature, Cultural Pluralism, Reading
Gilbert, Shelby – Negro Educational Review, 2009
Ogbu and Simons' thesis, based on the Cultural-Ecological Theory of School Performance that Black immigrant students academically outperform their non-immigrant counterparts and that achievement differences are attributed to stronger educational commitment in Black immigrant families, was examined. Two hypotheses, based on data from the Progress…
Descriptors: African American Children, Immigrants, Program Validation, Theses
Tuason, Ma. Teresa; Marcetic, Andjela; Roberts, Shavaun; Stuart, Karly; Rearick, Jessica – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
The Refuge is an after-school care programme in the southeastern USA that caters to the academic and psychological needs of impoverished African-American children. This study evaluated the Refuge through interviews with staff, small group discussions with children and persistent observation. By evaluating the after-school care services they…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Poverty, Family Relationship, Student Attitudes
Catherine Compton-Lilly – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2011
This article examines Reading Recovery as a microcosm for issues related to race and access. Tenets of critical race theory are presented to explore how racial biases are systemic in our ways of being, teaching, and conducting research. Specifically, I present data for African American children involved in Reading Recovery in one Midwestern…
Descriptors: African American Students, African American Children, Racial Differences, Racial Bias
Slaughter-Defoe, Diana T., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
Urban education is an interdisciplinary field, characterized by introducing many perspectives to research pertaining to educational policy and to the practice of educating youth whose lives unfold in densely populated urban metropolitan areas. This book celebrates Constance Clayton's eleven-year tenure as superintendent of the School District of…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Urban Education, Race, School Desegregation
Iruka, Iheoma U.; Burchinal, Margaret; Cai, Karen – Journal of Black Psychology, 2010
This study investigates the extent to which the quality of the relationships between African American children and their mothers and teachers in kindergarten predict academic and social development during elementary school years using the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. The…
Descriptors: African American Children, Behavior Problems, Mothers, Academic Achievement
Lovelace, Sherri; Stewart, Sharon R. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2009
Purpose: To examine the effect of a systematic vocabulary instructional technique in African American 2nd-grade children with below average vocabulary skills. An additional goal was to examine the role of book type in the retention of novel vocabulary words. Method: Using an adapted alternating treatments design, storybooks were used as a source…
Descriptors: African American Children, Vocabulary, Behavior Modification, Behavior Change
Jordan, Phillip; Hernandez-Reif, Maria – Journal of Black Psychology, 2009
This study continues the line of research on children's racial preferences that dates to Kenneth and Mamie Clark's classic research that revealed that Black children preferred White dolls and attributed more positive characteristics to White dolls than to Black dolls. In the current research, the authors examined Black and White preschool…
Descriptors: African American Children, African Americans, Racial Attitudes, Cartoons
Denied Access: Using African American Children's Literature to Examine the Anatomy of Social Justice
Stewart, Loraine Moses; Marshall, Jacqueline – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2009
Cynthia Tyson and Sung Choon Park's powerful article, "From Theory to Practice: Teaching for Social Justice," addressed many key points for educators to consider when discussing issues of social justice and injustice. They offered a variety of multicultural children's books and strategies for using them that can be helpful to educators.…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Childrens Literature, African American Children, Picture Books
Nelson, Belinda Wilburn; Awad, Daniel; Alexander, Jeffrey; Clark, Noreen – Journal of School Health, 2009
Background: Asthma is a chronic health condition that has a disproportionate effect on low-income minority children who reside in large urban areas. African American children report significantly higher rates than the general population of children and have more-severe asthma and poorer outcomes. This article describes the prevalence of asthma in…
Descriptors: African American Children, African Americans, Participatory Research, Disadvantaged Youth