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Irvine, Jacqueline Jordan – 1989
This paper examines factors that contribute to or inhibit the academic achievement of black students. The study is based on a process model that seeks to define interrelationships among the following elements: (1) the societal context, which is the level of prescriptive ideologies and structures; (2) the institutional context, which is the level…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Black Students, Cooperative Learning
Irvine, Jacqueline Jordan – 1990
The combination of Afrocentric students in Eurocentric schools results in a conflict of cultures that places black students at risk. Although schools endorse societal beliefs concerning equal treatment and equality of educational opportunities, certain practices such as the hidden curriculum, tracking, and discriminatory discipline practices are…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Culture, Black Students, Books