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Direct linkHorvat, Erin McNamara; Curci, Juliet DiLeo; Partlow, Michelle Chaplin – Journal of School Leadership, 2010
Scholarship on parent-principal relationships often ignores how some parental involvement can create challenges for school leaders. We analyze parent-principal relationships at an urban public K-8 school over a 30-year period, exploring how three different principals "managed" parental involvement. Our analysis reveals how these…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Administrator Effectiveness, Parent School Relationship, Principals
Peer reviewedHorvat, Erin McNamara – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2003
Discusses the notion of habitus and its utility in understanding how race and class influence educational experiences, educational opportunity, and life trajectories. Uses examples from a longitudinal study of how 15 urban black women from three high schools interpreted educational opportunity in the college application process and how they…
Descriptors: Black Students, Equal Education, Females, Higher Education
Peer reviewedHorvat, Erin McNamara; Lewis, Kristine S. – Sociology of Education, 2003
Discusses the idea that black students underperform in school because of cultural opposition to "acting white." Reassesses "acting white" and directs researchers to examine variations found in students' peer groups. Highlights ability of students to sustain their black identity and achieve academically by managing their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Achievement, Black Culture, Black Education
Download full textHorvat, Erin McNamara – 1996
This report examines the college aspirations and decisionmaking factors gathered from 53 interviews with Black, female, college-bound students, their parents, friends, college counselors, teachers, and school staff. The goal was to reveal how the students' lives and their access to postsecondary education have been framed and structured by the…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Black Achievement
Horvat, Erin McNamara – 1996
Our schools are environments of race and class and these school environments structure opportunity based on race and class. This paper explores how students' lives and their access to postsecondary education are framed and structured by the influences of race and class. The college choice decision process of three female Black students from a…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Black Achievement, Black Students, College Choice
Horvat, Erin McNamara – 1997
This qualitative study examined the role played by race in the college choice behavior of a group of minority females. It examines the college aspirations and decision making processes of Black female college-bound students and the influences of their parents, friends, college counselors, teachers, and school staff. Subjects were 50 students at 3…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Access to Education, Black Achievement, Black Attitudes
