1st Edition

The Schooling of Ethnic Minority Children and Youth A Special Issue of Educational Psychologist

Edited By Judith L. Meece, Beth Kurtz-Costes Copyright 2001
70 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 2001. A major contributor to the increased diversity of America's schoolchildren is immigration. The United States is a nation of immigrants, but rates of immigration have varied considerably over different periods of its history. Currently, the United States is experiencing a period of high immigration, which began in the 1960. Numerous reports indicate that schools are ill... Read more
Volume 36, Number 1, 2001
Contents: J.L. Meece, B. Kurtz-Costes, Introduction: The Schooling of Ethnic Minority Children and Youth. L. Okagaki, Triarchic Model of Minority Children's School Achievement. M.B. Spencer, E. Noll, J. Stoltzfus, V. Harpalani, Identity and School Adjustment: Revisiting the "Acting White" Assumption. D.T. Slaughter-Defoe, H.H. Rubin, A Longitudinal Case Study of Head Start-Eligible Children: Implications for Urban Education. R. Gallimore, C. Goldenberg, Analyzing Cultural Models and Settings to Connect Minority Achievement and School Improvement Research. C.A. Wong, S.J. Rowley, The Schooling of Ethnic Minority Children: Commentary.

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Guest Editors: Judith Meece School of Education University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Beth Kurtz-Costes Department of Psychology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill