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African-American Students’ Performance And Secondary School Size In The State Of Texas, John R. Slate, Craig H. Jones
African-American Students’ Performance And Secondary School Size In The State Of Texas, John R. Slate, Craig H. Jones
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The relationship between school size and academic achievement of African-American secondary school students was examined. Data were drawn from the Texas Academic Excellence Indicator System for 1998, 1999, and 2000. Results showed greater academic achievement for AfricanAmerican students from large schools than for African-American students at medium and small schools. These findings were most consistent on nationally standardized tests. Results were least consistent for state wide tests and for end of course grades, but all differences found favored large schools. Higher attendance rates were found for students in small schools, but no differences were found for dropout or graduation rates. …
The Dilemmas Of African-American Men From Historically Black Colleges And Universities In Completing Doctoral Degrees From Predominately White Institutions, Jeffrey Shears, Chance Lewis, Rich Furman
The Dilemmas Of African-American Men From Historically Black Colleges And Universities In Completing Doctoral Degrees From Predominately White Institutions, Jeffrey Shears, Chance Lewis, Rich Furman
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This paper examines the experiences of two African-American men in their pursuit of doctoral degrees from predominantly white institutions. It presents an overview of other studies that discuss the unique challenges experienced by African American students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs at these institutions. It also includes a case study that describes the struggles and difficulties of these two men, who completed their undergraduate degrees from two separate Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and completed their Ph.D. programs in separate Predominately White Institutions (PWI’s). The authors share their thoughts on the factors they felt were instrumental to their success, …
Being Black In U.S. Urban Schools: No Assumptions, Lavada Taylor Brandon, Mary J. Didelot
Being Black In U.S. Urban Schools: No Assumptions, Lavada Taylor Brandon, Mary J. Didelot
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To be an African-American student attending a school dominated by working class, urban, minority learners means failure. Working class African-American students are not experiencing education, they are colliding with education. These collisions will continue as long as they are facilitated by the assumptive dominant theories regarding African- American students’ educational experiences. One strategy to constructively disrupt these assumptive theoretical notions buried within current theory is to look to a working class, urban African-American student’s qualitative longitudinal formation of identity as she progresses from student to teacher within the learning process as categorized by Bateson (1972). The understanding gleaned from this …