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Pearson, Barbara Zurer; Jackson, Janice E.; Wu, Haotian – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2014
Purpose: In this study, the authors explored alternative gold standards to validate an innovative, dialect-neutral language assessment. Method: Participants were 78 African American children, ages 5;0 (years;months) to 6;11. Twenty participants had previously been identified as having language impairment. The Diagnostic Evaluation of Language…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Validity, African American Children, Language Impairments
Washington, Tyreasa; Rose, Theda; Coard, Stephanie Irby; Patton, Desmond Upton; Young, Shelton; Giles, Sasha; Nolen, Marlon – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2017
Background: The reported prevalence of depression and anxiety among African American children and adolescents and their negative sequalae suggest a need to further explore factors that may be protective of depression and anxiety among this population. Objective: The aim of this review was to examine empirical studies that focus on the association…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Anxiety, Databases, Social Work
Maylor, Uvanney – Routledge Research in Education, 2014
This book is designed to challenge dominant educational discourses on the underachievement of Black children and to engender new understandings in initial teacher education (ITE) about Black children's education and achievement. Based in empirical case study work and theoretical insights drawn from Bourdieu, hooks, Freire, and Giroux, Maylor calls…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Case Studies, Teacher Student Relationship, Racial Relations
Young, Jemimah L.; Young, Jamaal R.; Ford, Donna Y. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2017
The purpose of this study was to explore the differential effects of access to gifted education on the mathematics and science achievement of fourth-grade Black girls. This study utilized mean difference effect sizes to examine the magnitude of differences between groups. By convention, White girls were included as a comparison group. Girls…
Descriptors: Gifted, African American Children, STEM Education, Early Childhood Education
Hale, Janice Ellen – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2016
This article offers examples of valiant efforts to develop meaningful instructional implications from learning styles scholarship. Additionally, an example is given of an advance in the public policy arena that merges the efforts of psychological scholars with that of lawmakers to apply their research to effect change for children. The…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, African American Children, Cultural Influences, African American Culture
Anderson, Riana Elyse – Journal of Negro Education, 2015
Given the empirical links between familial characteristics and children's academic performance, this study examined associations between stress, relationship quality, and young children's school readiness (i.e., academic, psychosocial, and socioemotional characteristics) for economically impoverished Black families (N = 127). Parents reported low…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, School Readiness, Poverty, African American Children
Walker, Vanessa Siddle – Journal of Negro Education, 2015
This article resurrects the perspectives of Black educators using the Georgia Teachers Education Association (GTEA) as a case study to explore the issues these educators sought to have engaged by the nation and other public educational advocates during the desegregation period from 1968 to 1970. It utilizes an historical ethnographic lens applied…
Descriptors: Tokenism, Educational Change, Civil Rights Legislation, Federal Legislation
Lee, Kyunghee; Calkins, Andrea; Shin, Tae Seob – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
Objective: Using the Head Start Impact Study data, this study examines Head Start's impacts on social-emotional outcomes for children with disabilities. Method: Among 4,442 children, 570 children were reported to have disabilities. Ordinary least squares regression was used to determine whether the number of disabilities, having an individualized…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Education, Multiple Disabilities, Individualized Education Programs
Brooks, Wanda; Browne, Susan – Children's Literature in Education, 2012
This article describes a theory of how culture enables literary interpretations of texts. We begin with a brief overview of the reader response field. From there, we introduce the theory and provide illustrative participant data examples. These data examples illustrate the four cultural positions middle grade students in our research assumed when…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, African American Children, Reader Response, Novels
Edwards, Jan; Gross, Megan; Chen, Jianshen; MacDonald, Maryellen C.; Kaplan, David; Brown, Megan; Seidenberg, Mark S. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2014
Purpose: This study was designed to examine the relationships among minority dialect use, language ability, and young African American English (AAE)-speaking children's understanding and awareness of Mainstream American English (MAE). Method: Eighty-three 4- to 8-year-old AAE-speaking children participated in 2 experimental tasks. One task…
Descriptors: African American Children, Black Dialects, North American English, Comprehension
Chaney, Cassandra – Journal of Negro Education, 2014
Literacy is one of the strongest predictors of adult success, yet one in four children are illiterate and 50% of adults cannot read a book that is written on an eighth grade level. Although African American children from low-income homes are three times more likely than White children to be poor, and at greater risk for illiteracy, this author is…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Intergenerational Programs, African American Family, African American Children
Curenton, Stephanie M. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2015
This study provides qualitative and quantitative evidence of how an emotion explanation task can reflect African American preschoolers' pragmatic skills. We used an emotion explanation task to assess pragmatic skills among 19 children (aged 3-5 years) related to (1) engaging in conversational turn-taking, (2) answering "Wh-" questions,…
Descriptors: African American Children, Preschool Children, Emotional Response, Pragmatics
Mills, Monique T.; Watkins, Ruth V.; Washington, Julie A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2013
Purpose: To report preliminary comparisons of developing structural and dialectal characteristics associated with fictional and personal narratives in school-age African American children. Method: Forty-three children, Grades 2-5, generated a fictional narrative and a personal narrative in response to a wordless-book elicitation task and a…
Descriptors: African American Children, Elementary School Students, Fiction, Personal Narratives
Keyes, Angela W.; Smyke, Anna T.; Middleton, Melissa; Black, Corey L. – ZERO TO THREE, 2015
The legacy of slavery in the United States has impacted generations of African Americans, especially parents who must prepare their children to face the challenges associated with being a person of color in this country. The authors explore aspects of racism, White privilege, racial socialization, and African American parents' fears as they equip…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Racial Bias, Slavery
Jarrett, Robin L.; Coba-Rodriguez, Sarai – Journal of Negro Education, 2015
Research documents that African American children, relative to White peers, are disproportionally at-risk for being unready for kindergarten. However, research finds that parental involvement can promote positive educational outcomes, and that parental involvement is influenced by parents' own histories of involvement. The authors use qualitative…
Descriptors: African American Children, African American Students, African Americans, Mothers