School Climate and College Attendance for Black Adolescents: Moving Beyond College-Going Culture

Understanding how contexts promote positive educational outcomes is a critical objective of adolescent research. This study provides support for the established link between school climate and educational outcomes and expands our understanding of this association by examining multiple aspects of school climate in a sample of Black adolescents in the United States ( N = 1,740). Data were drawn from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002, and...