Neighborhood Social Disorganization, Families, and the Educational Behavior of Adolescents (original) (raw)

Community Social Disorganization Theory Applied to Adolescent Academic Achievement

2001

AUTHOR Baker, Spencer, R.; Robinson, Jack E.; Danner, Mona J. E.; Neukrug, Edward S. TITLE Community Social Disorganization Theory Applied to Adolescent Academic Achievement. PUB DATE 2001-04-00 NOTE 30p.; Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Seattle, WA, April 10-14, 2001). PUB TYPE Reports Descriptive (141) Speeches/Meeting Papers (150) EDRS PRICE MF01/PCO2 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Academic Achievement; *Community Influence; Context Effect; *Early Adolescents; Grade 8; Middle School Students; Middle Schools; Public Education; Socioeconomic Influences; Standardized Tests

The Influence of Neighborhood Quality on Adolescents' Educational Values and School Effort

Journal of Adolescent Research, 2004

Interview data from a sample of 262 poor African American single mothers and their 7th- and 8th-grade children were used to investigate the relations between neighborhood conditions and adolescents’educational values and school effort. The model tested incorporates both subjective and objective assessments of neighborhood quality and controls for several family- and school-related constructs. United States Census data on household incomes served as an objective measure of neighborhood quality. In the full sample, the findings revealed that the percentage of middle-class neighbors and self-perceived academic abilities were significantly linked to adolescents’educational values, which were, in turn, related to school effort. Several theories identifying the processes by which neighborhood characteristics influence adolescents’ educational values are discussed. Gender differences emerged when the model was tested separately for females and males. For African American females, but not f...

Overlapping and Disconnected Social Spheres: A Multi-contextual Model of the Link Between School Choice and Neighborhood Effects on Adolescents

Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, 2015

Author(s): Tran, Trinh Thi Tuyet | Advisor(s): Fischer, Claude S | Abstract: Because of the rise of public school choice programs, children who share a neighborhood are increasingly going to different schools. I explore the effects of overlapping and disconnected neighborhood and school spheres via two linked questions; first, whether and how the conjuncture/disjuncture of neighborhoods and schools affects the types of friendship opportunities available to students both at school and within their residential areas; and second, whether and how the conjuncture/disjuncture of neighborhoods and schools mediate children’s exposure to neighborhood disadvantages like violence. What I find is that school choice amplifies the disadvantages that children encounter in their neighborhoods by fragmenting local adolescent community networks and exacerbating the violent conditions that children face at their neighborhood schools.My data consist of 74 in-depth interviews with students from five pub...