News tagged with black students
Underage drinking among close friends high indicator of future alcohol use by black teens
Research led by University of Southern California (USC) professor Mary Ann Pentz, Ph.D., shows that black middle school students whose close friends drink alcohol are more likely to drink alcohol in high school than their ...
Nov 01, 2011 |
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Small interventions can alleviate underperformance caused by stereotype threat
Picture black and white students at an Ivy League college learning about black students who are a year or so ahead of them in that school. They're told that the older black students were anxious about fitting in and how they ...
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Aug 04, 2011 |
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How psychological cues can limit black students' academic learning, success
(PhysOrg.com) -- Like a gnawing stomach or pesky runny nose, a looming stereotype can make it difficult to focus and perform well in school. Based on existing research, black students, Latinos, and women in math and science ...
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Jul 12, 2011 |
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Why more African Americans turn to Twitter
It doesn't matter if you're black or white. If you're interested in celebrity and entertainment news, you're more likely to start using Twitter, according to a new Northwestern University study.
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May 17, 2011 |
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Segregation in charter schools, research shows
When the charter school system was first proposed and developed two decades ago, it was heralded, in part, as a promising means of achieving classroom diversity. However, the incidence of racial isolation in those schools ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 18, 2011 |
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Black colleges look to increase online ed presence
(AP) -- When Michael Hill needed a doctoral program with the flexibility to let him continue working full-time as a Lincoln University administrator, he chose an online degree from another institution.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 14, 2010 |
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Friendship without race barriers
A study in the October issue of the Journal of Labor Economics suggests that racial harmony on college campuses could start with dorm room assignments.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 01, 2010 |
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Big racial gap in suspensions of middle school students, study shows
A new study by education researchers Daniel J. Losen (Civil Rights Project at UCLA) and Russell Skiba (Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University) says Middle schools across the country are suspending ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 15, 2010 |
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What Do Students Know?
Black holes, frozen worlds, the "big bang," supernovae -- when it comes to telling strange and compelling stories, astronomy and space science educators can draw upon these and other denizens of a celestial ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 12, 2010 |
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Racial Segregation Fuels Early Black-White Achievement Gap, Data Suggest
Racial segregation of schools, and thereby segregated neighborhoods, appears to be a leading source of academic achievement disparities between young black and white children, according to research by sociologist Dennis J. ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Immigrant Blacks More Likely to Attend Elite Colleges
A larger proportion of immigrant black high school graduates attend selective colleges and universities than both native black and white students in America, according to a study by sociologists at Johns Hopkins University ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Research examines coping strategies of African-American students in predominantly white schools
A new study examining the interactions of black and white high-achieving students in elite, private high schools reveals how today's millennial generation is negotiating race, identity and academic success. In a paper presented ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Roommate assignments key in increasing interracial friendships in college
White students generally increased their number of interracial friendships during their first year of college, while black students showed a slight decrease, according to a study at one highly selective private university.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 28, 2009 |
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Study: Teachers choose schools according to student race
A study forthcoming in the Journal of Labor Economics suggests that high-quality teachers tend to leave schools that experience inflows of black students. According to the study's author, C. Kirabo Jackson (Cornell Univer ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 27, 2009 |
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Psychological headwind keeps women, minorities from sprinting ahead of their peers, study finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Let's say a white student and a black student both score 1020 on their SATs. They're performing right around the national average, so based on their scores it stands to reason they're both typical students ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 24, 2009 |
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