This article uses critical race theory, court opinions, newspapers, and interviews to explain how the burden of busing for desegregation was placed upon Blacks in Nashville, Tennessee and why the agenda of the litigants in the Kelley v. Metropolitan Board of Education cases shifted over time. The deliberate pace of the initial desegregation…

Over 1200 students in 22 north and central Georgia secondary schools were surveyed on the issue How do high school students, soon to enter the world of work (unless going to college immediately and postponing their entry) regard this future world of theirs? This report summarizes the responses of the 410 black respondents, 215 males and 195…

In order to identify the relationships between the attitudes and perceptions of peer pressure and the academic achievement of academically able male adolescents, this study compares the school attitudes of high achieving and low achieving Black male youth. (EF)

A sample of 91 White and 22 minority parent volunteers whose children attended an urban elementary school were administered a revised version of the Dean Alienation Scale. Results indicated that minority parents were more alienated from school than were White parents. (FMW)

Asserts that in simultaneously fostering esteem and learning among black children, there must be a curricular atmosphere of positivism as opposed to an atmosphere of negativism. The atmosphere of the school, the relationships with students, the nature of the course and course materials should all bear symbols and contingencies that stimulate a…

Explored differences in the attitudes which indigenous White British pupils and West Indian immigrants have toward school by surveying pupils in England and Jamaica. Found that neither ethnicity nor the impact of migration is alone sufficient to explain the differences, but that home socialization and cultural discontinuity play major roles. (GC)

Two hundred children from the economically deprived areas of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Wards and near the North Side and Bottoms Public Housing Units of Houston participated in this study. (JM)

Assesses the self-concept and school attitudes of a sample of Black ninth graders at two urban schools. Reports that, while the percentage of Black youth with low self-concept may be lower now than in previous years, there are still many who lack a positive self-image. (KH)

Explored self-esteem, physical and racial self-concept, attitudes toward school and neighborhood, racial attitudes, and locus of control among 98 Black children in grades 3-12, living and attending school in upper middle class, predominantly White suburbs. (GC)