Examined were the effects of home stability on educational aspirations and academic performance for a large sample (4,725) of rural and small town Mississippi high school students. Certain socioeconomic variables were used to examine the effect of socioeconomic status on achievement level. (DS)

This study attempts to view some of the historical and social factors that may affect the development of self concepts and racial attitudes of black children in a Northern and Southern environment, and to examine the differential effect of growing up in a female-headed household on the relationship between the self concept and racial attitudes of…