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Assessing Family Resilience for African American College Students: Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale

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Harper, Quandrea R.; Debb, Scott M. – Journal of American College Health, 2022

Objective: Psychometric properties of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale and its utility for use with African American college students were examined. Participants: Subjects were 440 university students (M age = 21.65, SD = 6.17) who were enrolled during the 2018-2019 academic year and recruited during the fall and spring semesters. Methods: A…

Descriptors: African American Students, Psychometrics, Test Validity, Resilience (Psychology)

Struggles for Educational Equity in Prince Edward County, VA: Resistance, Southern Manifesto Ideologies, and School Choice

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Tillerson-Brown, Amy – Journal of School Choice, 2016

In light of contemporary school choice proposals and the 60th anniversary of the Southern Manifesto, the Prince Edward County, Virginia public schools crisis provides interesting historical discussion. Prince Edward County (PEC), a rural community in central Virginia, was one of five school districts represented in the 1954 "Brown v. Board of…

Descriptors: Equal Education, School Choice, Educational Vouchers, Public Schools

How Direct Descendants of a School Lockout Achieved Academic Success: Resilience in the Educational Attainments of Prince Edward County's Children

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Williams, Randolph, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2013

From 1959 to 1964, approximately 1,700 Black children in Prince Edward County, Virginia were denied schooling, due to the county leaders' decision to close schools--a defiant response to federal racial desegregation mandates stemming from "Brown v. Board of Education" (1954, 1955). Yet from one of the most extreme cases of injustice in…

Descriptors: African American Students, School Closing, Resilience (Psychology), Educational Attainment