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Mills, ShaVonte' – History of Education Quarterly, 2021
This article examines Black parents' efforts to establish and secure quality education for their children in antebellum Boston, Massachusetts. It situates the African School, a Black-owned cultural institution, within Black nationalist politics and reveals how the schoolhouse became a site of political tension between Black Bostonians and the…
Descriptors: African American Education, African American Institutions, African American Students, Politics of Education
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Nyirenda, Stanley M.; Gong, Tao – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2010
This study of a Mid Atlantic Historically Black Institution (MAHBI) examines cognitive, social, and institutional factors to identify those that are most critical in contributing to the steady decline of the rate of student retention for this institution and others with similar characteristics. Secondary source data pertaining to three cohorts…
Descriptors: African American Institutions, Black Colleges, Land Grant Universities, Institutional Characteristics
McLoughlin, M. Padraig M. M.; Bluford, Dontrell A. – Online Submission, 2004
This study investigated the predictive validity of the Descriptive Tests of Mathematical Skills (DTMS) and the SAT-Mathematics (SAT-M) tests as placement tools for entering students in a small, liberal arts, historically black institution (HBI) using regression analysis. The placement schema is four-tiered: for a remedial algebra course, college…
Descriptors: African American Institutions, Prediction, Test Validity, Calculus