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Direct linkShirrell, Matthew – Education Finance and Policy, 2018
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 required states to set cutoffs to determine which schools were subject to accountability for their racial/ethnic subgroups. Using a regression discontinuity design and data from North Carolina, this study examines the effects of this policy on teacher turnover and attrition. Subgroup-specific accountability had…
Descriptors: Accountability, Faculty Mobility, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
Stephenson, Caroline – Schools: Studies in Education, 2012
In this essay, filmmaker and educator Caroline Stephenson tells how Hurricane Irene started her on a journey to make a documentary about Rosenwald Schools in her native Hertford County, North Carolina. After many years working as an assistant director in Los Angeles on films and television shows, Stephenson moved back to the family farm to raise…
Descriptors: African Americans, African American Culture, Alumni, School Buildings
Kelly, Hilton – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
This book explores a profoundly negative narrative about legally segregated schools in the United States being "inherently inferior" compared to their white counterparts. However, there are overwhelmingly positive counter-memories of these schools as "good and valued" among former students, teachers, and community members.…
Descriptors: United States History, Racial Segregation, African American History, Memory
Holt, Yolanda Feimster – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation evaluates the relationship between African American English and White Vernacular English as spoken in a small rural town in western North Carolina for consistencies in vowel production by group membership and for participation in the Southern Vowel Shift (SVS), a vowel rotation currently occurring in the Southern United States. A…
Descriptors: Vowels, Word Lists, Statistical Analysis, North American English
Download full textBell, Edward Earl – Online Submission, 2010
The purpose of this study was to assess the socialization skills, self-esteem, and academic readiness of African American males in a school environment. Discussions with students and the School Perceptions Questionnaire provided data for this investigation. The intended targets for this investigation were African American students; however, there…
Descriptors: African American Students, Socialization, Middle School Students, Educational Environment
Roach, Ronald – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2004
Americans know that Black and Latino children, by and large, are not reaching their full potential when it comes to learning and academic performance. But there are exceptions. The question that's being increasingly asked is how and why exceptions can become the norm. In the half century since the Brown v. Board decision, there remains a wide…
Descriptors: African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Academic Achievement, Racial Differences
Stewart, Pearl – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2004
In December 2000, Dr. Thomas Earl Midgette had harsh words for the hip-hop movement that was sweeping his campus. When he was interviewed for an article in "Black Issues" titled "The Miseducation of Hip-Hop," Midgette didn't hold back: "You see students walking on campus reciting rap lyrics when they should be reciting…
Descriptors: African American Culture, Popular Culture, African American Students, Higher Education
