How Does African American Racial Status Affect Academic Performance

The experiment was performed because there is conflict that and African Americans racial status can affect his or her academic performance.The reason being that if a person remains loyal to his or her race that it impacts their performance because if an African American person does well in school and gets good grades they are deemed acting as a white person and ostracized by their fellow classmates.Through both males and females deal with this it seems that African American women are encouraged to do well in school more than the men as they are more accepted. Evans-Winters writes in her book that these girls have a group of people that help them on their path and overcome many different challenges. The drive to do well in school is correlated to an African American female success as researchers suspect. There were three goals to this study

The study followed more than 1500 children from the seventh all the way to the ninth grade across four waves of information.There main focal point of the experiment was African American women which came out to be more than 700 girls. More than forty percent of their parents were married and about forty-three percent of the families proclaimed an average of two children living in the household. Parents who had more than one kid completed the survey and were had to select the youngest child that participated in the study. They got kids from the most diverse districts across the Midwest during the years of 2010-2013.They were curious to see if schools with more Black people,more white people, or culturally diverse would have an impact on success opinions.They gave them information folders to their houses, and parents gave authorization by signing and returning the form before taking of the survey. Students were given gift card for completing the