Home buyers exercise school choice when shopping for a private residence due to its location in a public school district or attendance area. In this quantitative study of one Connecticut suburban district, we measure the effect of elementary school test scores and racial composition on home buyers' willingness to purchase single-family homes over…

Addresses the interrelatedness of the following three variables: (1) ethnicity and ethnic identity; (2) minority status and perceptions of adult opportunities; and (3) effect on school performance of this interrelation. The research draws on fieldwork in an agricultural/suburban community along the central California coast. (Author/LHW)

Time sampling data from 392 fifth to ninth graders from working-class and middle-class suburbs of Chicago (Illinois) show high rates of boredom within and outside of school. High boredom correlates with high ability and with oppositional behavior (when ability is controlled), but not with onset of adolescence. (SLD)

Census and student questionnaire data for 382 African-American and 3,467 white high school students from suburban San Francisco (California) indicate consistent positive relationships among grades and family status, level of parental education, and a two-parent home only for the white majority. The community context is important in understanding…

Investigation of the roles of pubertal timing and pubertal status on school achievement for 115 boys and 137 girls followed through grades 6, 7, and 8 indicates that late-maturing boys have the lowest school achievement, whereas late-maturing girls have the highest. Followups at grade 12 indicate few long-term effects. (SLD)