The role of gender in academic achievement

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 605-623

  Hubbard, Lea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944463673     PISSN: 09518398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09518390500224887     Document Type: Review

References (70)

1. Akom, A. A. (2003) Reexamining resistance as oppositional behavior: the Nation of Islam and the creation of black achievement ideology, Sociology of Education 76, 305-325.
2. American Association of University Women (AAUW) (1992) How schools shortchange girls (Washington DC, AAUW).
3. American Association of University Women (1993) Hostile hallways: the AAUW survey on sexual harassment in America's schools (Washington DC, Harris Scholastic Research).
4. American Association of University Women (1998) Separated by sex: a critical look at single-sex education for girls (Washington DC, AAUW).
5. Anderson, E. (1990) Streetwise: race, class and change in an urban community (Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press).
6. Anderson, E. (1999) Code of the street: decency, violence and the moral life of the inner city (New York, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.).
7. Barajas, H. & Pierce, J. (2001) The significance of race and gender in school success among Latinas and Latinos in college, Gender and Society, 15(6), 859-878.
8. Brown, L. M. & Gilligan, C. (1992) Meeting at the crossroads: women's psychology and girls' development (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press).
9. Bush, G. (2002) No child left behind. (Washington DC, Department of Education).
10. Cammorota, J. (2004) The gendered and racialized pathways of Latina and Latino youth: different struggles, different resistances in the urban context, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 35(1), 53-74.
11. Carter, P. (2003) 'Black' cultural capital, status positioning and schooling conflicts for low-income African American youth, Social Problems, 50(1), 136-155.
12. Coleman, S. J. (1961) The adolescent society (New York, Free Press of Glencoe).
13. Collins, P. H. (1990) Black feminist thought (London, Unwin Hyman).
14. Educational Trust (2003) African American achievement in America. Available online at: http://www.2edtrust.org (accessed October 2004).
15. Fine, M. (1991) Framing dropouts (Albany, State University of New York Press).
16. Foley, D. (1990) Learning capitalist culture: deep in the heart of Tejas (Philadelphia, PA, University of Pennsylvania Press).
17. Fordham, S. (1996) Blacked out: dilemmas of race, identity and success at Capital High (Chicago, IL & London, University of Chicago Press).
18. Fordham, S. & Ogbu, J. (1986) 'Black students' school success: coping with the 'burden of 'Acting white'', The Urban Review, 12(3), 173-206.
19. Gándara, P. (1995) Over the ivy walls: the educational mobility of low income Chicanos (Albany, NY, State University of New York Press).
20. Gibson, M. A. (1982) Reputation and respectability: how competing cultural systems affect students' performance in school, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 13(1), 3-27.
21. Gibson, M. A. (1991) Ethnicity, gender and social class: the school adaptation patterns of West Indian youths, in: M. Gibson & J. Ogbu (Eds) Minority status and schooling: a comparative study of immigrant and involuntary minorities (New York, Garland), 169-203.
22. Gibson, M. A. (1997) Exploring and explaining the variability: cross-national perspective on the school performance of minority students, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 28(3).
23. Gibson, M. A. (2002) Dropout prevention: how migrant education supports Mexican youth, Journal of Latinos and Education, 3, 155-175.
24. Grant, L. (1985) Uneasy alliances: black males, teachers and peers in desegregated classrooms, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, 1 April.
25. Hammersley, W. & Woods, P. (Eds) (1984) Life in school (Milton Keynes, UK, Open University Press).
26. Hemmings, A. (1996) Conflicting images? being black and a model high school student, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 27(1), 20-50.
27. Hidalgo, N., Sau-Fong, S., Bright, J., Swap, S. & Epstein, J. (2001) Research on families, schools, and communities: a multicultural perspective, in: J Banks (Ed.) Handbook of research on multicultural education (San Fransisco, CA, Jossey Bass), 498-534.
28. hooks, b. (1990) Yearning: race, gender and cultural politics (Boston, MA, South End Press).
29. Hubbard, L. (1995) Academic achievement among minority students: the effects of institutional mechanisms and student ideology. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at San Diego.
30. Hubbard, L. (1999) College aspirations among low-income African American high school students: gendered strategies for success, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 30(3), 363-383.
31. Hubbard, L. & Mehan, H. (1999) race and reform: educational niche picking in a hostile environment, Journal of Negro Education, 68(2), 213-226.
32. Hubbard, L., Mehan, H. & Mickelson, R. (2001) Students' perspectives on racism and reform, paper presented at AERA National Conference, Seattle, April.
33. Ladner, J. (1979) Labeling black children: some mental health implications (Vol. 5) (Washington DC, Washington Institute for Urban Affairs and Research).
34. Leake, D. & Leake, B. (1992) Islands of hope: Milwaukee's African American immersion schools, Journal of Negro Education, 61(1), 24-29.
35. Lipman, P. (1998) Race class and power in school restructuring (New York, State University of New York Press).
36. Lopez, N. (2003) Hopeful girls, troubled boys: race and gender disparity in urban education (New York, Routledge).
37. McGinty, S. (1999) Resilience, gender, and success at school (New York, Peter Lang).
38. Maher, F. & Tetreault, M. K. (1993) Doing feminist ethnography: lessons from feminist classrooms, Qualitative Studies in Education. 6(1), 19-32.
39. Mehan, H., Villanueva, I., Hubbard, L. & Lintz, A. (1996) Constructing school success: the consequences of untracking low-achieving students (Cambridge & New York, Cambridge University Press).
40. Mehan, H., Okamoto, D. Lintz, A. & Wills, J. (2001) ethnographic studies of multicultural education, in: J. Banks (Ed.) Handbook of research on multicultural education (San Francisco, Jossey Bass), 129-144.
41. Moll, L. & Gonzalez, N. (1997) Teachers as social scientists: learning about culture form household research, in: P. Hall (Ed.) Race, ethnicity and multiculturalism: policy and practice (New York, Garland), 89-114.
42. National Center for Education Statistics (2003) Available online at: http//nces.ed.gov (accessed October 2004).
43. Nieto, S. (2001) a history of the education of Puerto Rican students in U.S. mainland schools: losers, outsiders or leaders, in: J. Banks (Ed.) Handbook of research on multicultural education (San Fransisco, CA, Jossey Bass), 388-411.
44. Oakes, J., Quartz, K. H., Ryan, S. & Lipton, M. (1999) Becoming good American schools: the struggle for civic virtue in educational reform (San Francisco, Jossey-Bass).
45. Ogbu, J. (1987) Variability in minority school performance: a problem in search of an explanation, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 18(4), 312-334.
46. Ogbu, J. (1992) Understanding cultural diversity and learning, Educational Researcher, 21(8), 4-14.
47. Ogbu, J. (1999) Beyond language: ebonies, proper English, and identity in a Black American speech community, American Educational Research Journal, 36(2), 147-184.
48. Ogbu, J. (2003) Black American students in an affluent suburb: a study of academic disengagement (Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).
49. Ogbu, J. & Matute-Bianchi, M. E. (1986) Understanding socio-cultural factors: knowledge, identity and school adjustment, in: California Office of Bilingual Bicultural Education (Ed.) Beyond language: social and cultural factors in schooling language minority students (Los Angeles, CA, Evaluation, Dissemination and Assessment Center, California State University), 73-142.
50. Price, J. N. (1995) Against the odds: the meaning of school and relationships in the lives of six young African American men. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Michigan State University, East Lansing.
51. Price, J. N. (2000) Peer (Dis)Connections, School and African American masculinities, in: N. Lesko (Ed.) Masculinities at school (Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage), 127-162.
52. Ravitch, D. (2000) Left back: a century of failed school reforms. (New York, Simon & Schuster).
53. Sadker, M. & Sadker, D. (1994) Failing at fairness (New York, Touchstone).
54. Sleeter, C. (1993) How white teachers construct race, in: C. McCarthy & W. Crichlow (Eds) Race, identity and representation in education (New York, Routldge), 157-171.
55. Sleeter, C. & Grant, C. A. (1988) Making choices for multicultural education: five approaches to race, class, and gender (Columbus, OH, Merrill).
56. Stack, C. B. (1986) The culture of gender: women and men of color, Signs, II(Winter), 321-324.
57. Suarez-Orozco, M. (1991) Immigrant adaptation to schooling: a Hispanic case, in: M. Gibson & J Ogbu (Eds) Minority status and schooling. A comparative study of immigrant and involuntary minorities (New York, Garland), 37-61.
58. Taylor, R. T. (1991) Poverty and adolescent black males: the subculture of disengagement, in: (P. B. Edleman & J. A. Ladner (Eds) Adolescence and poverty: challenge for the 1990s (Lanham, MD, Center for National Policy Press), 139-162.
59. Tucker, M. & Codding, J. (1998) Standards for our schools: How to set them, measure them and reach them (San Francisco, CA, Jossey-Bass).
60. US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) (2002a) 'Fall enrollment in colleges and universities' surveys; and integrated postsecondary education data system (IPEDS), 'Fall enrollment' surveys, table 172. Available online at: http://www.ed.gov.index.jhtml (accessed October 2004).
61. US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) (2002b) 'Degrees and other formal awards conferred' surveys, and integrated postsecondary education data system (IPEDS), 'Completions' surveys, Table 264. Available online at: http://www.ed.gov.index.jhtml (accessed October 2004).
62. US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) (2002c) 'Degrees and other formal awards conferred' surveys, and integrated postsecondary education data system (IPEDS), 'Completions' surveys, Table 270. Available online at: http://www.ed.gov.index.jhtml (accessed October 2004).
63. US Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey (2002d) Unpublished data;
64. and US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, dropout rates in the United States table 108. Available online at: http://www.ed.gov.index.jhtml (accessed October 2004).
65. Ward, J. (2002) School rules, in: The Jossey-Bass reader on gender in education (San Fransisco, CA, Jossey Bass), 510-542.
66. Weiler, K. (1988) Women teaching for change: gender, class and power (New York, Bergin & Garvey).
67. Willis, P. (1977) Learning to labor (New York, Columbia University Press).
68. Wills, J. & Mehan, H. (1996) Recognizing diversity within a common historical narrative: the challenge to teaching history and social studies, Multicultural Education, Fall.
69. Woody, E. (2003) Constructions of masculinity in California's single-gender academies, in: A. Datnow & L Hubbard (Eds) Gender in policy and practice: perspectives on single-sex and coeducational schooling (New York, Routledge Palmer).
70. Zinn, M. & Dill, B. T. (1994) Women of color in U.S. society (Philadelphia, PA, Temple University Press).