Challenges Of Studying Attributes Associated With African American Males Who Are Not Successful With Testing Measures

African Americans continue to perform significantly lower on high-stakes measures of educational achievement than do other ethnic groups. Osborn (1997) attributes this low performance by African Americans to their disidentification with the academic discourse. Ickes and Layden (1976), Metalsky, Abra...

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Main Author: McGinnis, Marvin Harris
Other Authors: Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29186
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10042002-103859/