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The Making of Sophomores: Student, Parent, and Teacher Reactions in the Context of Systemic Urban High School Reform
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Patterson, Nancy C.; Beltyukova, Svetlana A.; Berman, Karen; Francis, Anthony – Urban Education, 2007
America's urban high schools are having trouble making sophomores, resulting in freshmen classes bulging with students repeating a grade. Research shows that these students are at high risk of failure and dropout. Urban districts have begun to respond to the notable "freshmen bulge" through school restructuring. This mixed-methods study…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Pilot Projects, Small Schools, High School Students
School Attendance Revisited: A Study of Urban African American Students' Grade Point Averages and Coping Strategies
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Steward, Robbie J.; Steward, Astin Devine; Blair, Jonathan; Jo, Hanik; Hill, Martin F. – Urban Education, 2008
Urban African American first-year high school students' absenteeism was found to be negatively related to grade point average (GPA) and avoidance as a means of coping (use of substances as a way to escape--food, alcohol, smoking, caffeine, etc.) and positively related to use of social support as a means of coping (efforts to stay emotionally…
Descriptors: African American Students, Counseling Services, Grade Point Average, Attendance Patterns
Friends, Family, and Neighborhood: Understanding Academic Outcomes of African American Youth.
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Williams, Trina R.; Davis, Larry E.; Cribbs, Julie Miller; Saunders, Jeanne; Williams, James Herbert – Urban Education, 2002
Examined the relationship between academic performance and various contextual factors for urban, African American high school freshmen. Survey data indicated that gender, peers' church attendance, and percentage of relatives completing high school were significant in predicting positive academic outcomes. Perception of neighborhood deterioration…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Context Effect, High School Freshmen
Orientations: First Impressions in an Urban Junior High School.
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Rothstein, Stanley William – Urban Education, 1979
This paper focuses on the social effect and individual meanings new staff and student members assimilate in formal orientations. (Author/EB)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Case Studies, College Freshmen, High School Freshmen