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Leath, Seanna; Mathews, Channing; Harrison, Asya; Chavous, Tabbye – American Educational Research Journal, 2019
This study examined the associations among racial identity beliefs (centrality and public regard), racial discrimination, and academic engagement outcomes among 1,659 African American adolescents across two demographically distinct school districts, one predominantly Black, working class (n = 1,100) and one predominantly White, middle class (n =…
Descriptors: Racial Identification, Racial Discrimination, School Districts, Gender Differences
Troiano, Helena; Elias, Marina – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2014
University expansion in higher education has been hierarchically differentiated. There is some concentration of certain social profiles in some degrees of study, so social composition between degrees can vary considerably. This article describes in terms of social composition 10 degrees of four public universities in the metropolitan area of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Expectation, Student Educational Objectives, Public Colleges
Soria, Krista; Bultmann, Mark – NACADA Journal, 2014
Utilizing data from the multi-institutional "Student Experience in the Research University" survey, we examined self-identified working-class students' experiences in higher education. The results suggest that working-class students experience a lower sense of belonging, perceive a less welcoming campus climate, and pursue fewer social…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Working Class, Student Employment, Student Experience
Strand, Steve – Research Papers in Education, 2014
Perhaps the most prevailing inequalities in educational achievement in England are those associated with socio-economic status (SES), ethnicity and gender. However, little research has sought to compare the relative size of these gaps or to explore interactions between these factors. This paper analyses the educational achievement at age 11, 14…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Gender Differences, Social Class, Achievement Gap
Smith, Emma – Evaluation & Research in Education, 2010
This paper considers contemporary "moral panics" around the underachievement of boys in school examinations in the UK and America. In the UK, in particular, the underachievement of boys is central to current "crisis accounts" about falling standards and failing pupils. "Underachievement" is a familiar word to those…
Descriptors: Violence, Underachievement, Young Adults, Males
McWhirter, Ellen Hawley; McWhirter, Benedict T. – Youth & Society, 2008
The development and validation of a measure of adolescent future expectations associated with work, education, family, health, and church/community participation is presented. The 25-item measure was administered to a sample of 389 7th- to 12th-grade urban poor and working-class Chilean students. Results of an exploratory principal axis factor…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Validity, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis

Gray, Steven W. – Psychology: A Quarterly Journal of Human Behavior, 1986
Compares the effects of socioeconomic factors and leisure satisfaction variables upon the level of self-actualization of working adults. Of the independent variables, only sex, marital status, occupation, education and relaxational variables correlated significantly with any of the self-actualization measures. (Author/ABB)
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Leisure Time, Life Satisfaction

Kelley, Michelle L.; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1993
Examined the degree to which African-American mothers took a parent- versus child-oriented approach to disciplinary practices. Found associations of maternal education and age with mothers' use of physical punishment; mothers' age and concerns about child victimization with mothers' use of social control; and maternal education with restrictive…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Black Mothers, Child Rearing, Discipline
Sacks, Peter – School Administrator, 2000
For 2 decades, policymakers have pretended that bureaucratic, state-imposed standards, testing, and sanctions will fundamentally raise all schoolchildren's academic achievement and create productive citizens. The losers have been children of the poor, working class, and undereducated. Policymakers are holding schools and children accountable for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Costs, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Policy