Teachers' pets, troublemakers, and nobodies
Subtitle: Black children in elementary school
By: Helen Gouldner ; with the assistance of Mary Symons Strong.
Contributors: Strong, Mary Symons.
Series: Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 41
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Westport, CT
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780313204173
Copyright date: 1978
Subjects: African Americans -- Education (Elementary); Students -- United States -- Social conditions; Students -- United States -- Economic conditions
Notes: Bibliography: p. [139]-146.
Includes index.
"The research on which this book is largely based was designed by Jules Henry and conducted by him during the first nine months of the research project, until he became incapacitated by illness." - Preface.
Table of contents: title: The natural history of a school career; title: Settling down; title: The favored few; title: The weeding-out process; title: The home and school lockstep; title: Epilogue