Recently added articles from The Journal of Negro Education:
Editor's Comment: School Districts Serving the Largest Number of African American Students and their Congressional Representatives: A Call for Educational Advocacy
Apr 01, 2009; ... The Journal of Negro Education is pleased to provide the names, addresses and telephone numbers of the top 30 school districts serving the largest number of Black students in the United States. The list also includes the legislator who has been elected to represent each district in the U.S ....
The Relation Among Parental Factors and Achievement of African American Urban Youth
Apr 01, 2009; ... Research has suggested that low socioeconomic status is a major factor in diminishing academic achievement of African American urban youth; however, there are other factors influencing students' achievement. To examine the other factors that contribute to academic achievement, this study ...
School Day Eating Habits of Inner-City, African American Adolescents
Apr 01, 2009; ... School administrators and food providers need to better understand what factors drive young consumers' food choices in order to keep them as customers and avoid a potential backlash from parents, the community, and public policymakers. This article reports the findings of a study on African ...
Racial-Ethnic Identity, Academic Achievement, and African American Males: A Review of Literature
Apr 01, 2009; ... This article discusses broadly, the literature on racial-ethnic identity (REI) and its role as a factor to promote academic success in young African American adolescents, in particular males. The review also defines, describes, and interprets styles of self-presentation that reflect aspects of ...
Measuring the Relationship Between Attributions for "The Gap" and Educational Policy Attitudes: Introducing the Attributions for Scholastic Outcomes Scale-Black
Apr 01, 2009; ... This study provides empirical support for the Attributions for Scholastic Outcomes Scale-Black (ASO-B) as an instrument for measuring two latent traits that influence causal reasoning about the Black-White achievement gap: culture-blaming and structure-blaming. Within this conceptual framework, ...