Sleeping Beauty Redefined: African American Girls in Transition
By: Patricia S. Kusimo
Format: PDF | Copyright: 1997 | SleepingB.pdf
In general, researchers have assumed that research on minorities and adolescent females has adequately addressed their concerns. There is a growing recognition of the need to look at data for girls of color and validate whether assumptions that hold for minorities and females overall hold for this subpopulation (Campbell, 1996). This paper is one effort to bring together some of these bodies of research. (Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for African American Studies, Houston, Texas, February 1997.)

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: Culture, Ethnicity, Class, Place, and Adolescent Appalachian Girls' Sense of Self
By: Carolyn S. Carter
Format: PDF | Copyright: 1997 | Dreams.pdf
This paper, based on two years of an ongoing study of adolescent girls in two settings—one rural, the other urban—provides an examination of issues related to girls' constructions of their identities and relationships to science, mathematics, and technology (SMT). (Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois, March 24-28, 1997.)

The Same, Yet Different: Building Advocacy Networks in Rural and Urban Communities
By: Marian Keyes
Format: PDF | Copyright: 1997 | Advocacy.pdf
This paper explores the nature of family-school relationships and families' educational influence in networks formed to support girls' participation in science, mathematics and technology. The setting for our study is two counties, one urban and one rural, both with a significant African American population. (Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for African American Studies, Houston, Texas, February 1997.)

Power Learning in Voices: Results from Year One
By: Carolyn S. Carter
Format: HTML | Copyright: 1997
The Power Learning program came about as part of the NSF-funded Rural and Urban Images: Voices of Girls in Science, Mathematics, and Technology program. This three-year program is a program for girls, their families, and communities, as well as a research and development effort.