{"id":65,"date":"2015-01-23T10:56:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T10:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ddce.utexas.edu\/aamri\/?p=65"},"modified":"2015-01-23T10:56:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T10:56:52","slug":"rethinking-the-attitude-achievement-paradox-among-blacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/rethinking-the-attitude-achievement-paradox-among-blacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking The Attitude-Achievement Paradox Among Blacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Downey, D. B., J. W. Ainsworth, and Z. Qian. &#8220;Rethinking The Attitude-Achievement Paradox Among Blacks.&#8221;<em>Sociology of Education<\/em>\u00a082.1 (2009): 1-19.<\/p>\n<p>Blacks offer positive responses to a wide range of survey questions gauging attitudes toward schooling, yet perform less well in school than do whites. The credibility of blacks&#8217; attitudes is a central issue among competing explanations for this paradox. In this article, the authors assess questions about the validity of blacks&#8217; pro-school attitudes with the National Education Longitudinal Study. Two findings prompted the authors to rethink the paradox. First, a key reason for doubting blacks&#8217; pro-school attitudes\u2014that they fail to predict achievement\u2014does not generalize to the national data. Second, rather than challenge the credibility of blacks&#8217; proschool attitudes, the results reveal minimal differences in attitude-achievement associations between blacks and other minority groups. These patterns have implications for thinking about whether blacks resist schooling.<\/p>\n<p>Full article can be found here:\u00a0https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/40376035<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downey, D. B., J. W. Ainsworth, and Z. Qian. &#8220;Rethinking The Attitude-Achievement Paradox Among Blacks.&#8221;Sociology of Education\u00a082.1 (2009): 1-19. Blacks offer positive responses to a wide range of survey questions gauging attitudes toward schooling, yet perform less well in school than do whites. The credibility of blacks&#8217; attitudes is a&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/rethinking-the-attitude-achievement-paradox-among-blacks\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"underline\">read more<\/span>&nbsp;<i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10,11,12,13,14,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-65","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-achievement-ac","7":"tag-10","8":"tag-attitudes","9":"tag-d-b-downey","10":"tag-j-w-ainsworth","11":"tag-schooling","12":"tag-z-qian","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}