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Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides – Urban Education, 2025
I provide a broad frame for understanding racial disproportionality in special education by showing how the inequity is a byproduct of the educational debt. I used a single case study design that relied upon qualitative semi-structured interviews, document analyses, and school board meeting transcripts gathered from a mid-sized urban school…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Disproportionate Representation, Special Education, Equal Education
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Hines, Erik M.; Moore, James L., III; Mayes, Renae D.; Harris, Paul C.; Vega, Desireé; Robinson, Dwan V.; Gray, Crystal N.; Jackson, Candice E. – Urban Education, 2020
Much attention has been paid to administrators and teachers in turnaround schools; however, little focus, if any, is given to school counselors and the vital role that they play in improving student outcomes. In turnaround schools, it is critical that all school personnel are involved in improving school outcomes, such as academic achievement and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Turnaround, Counselor Role, School Counselors
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Zimmerman, Emily B.; Woolf, Steven H.; Blackburn, Sarah M.; Kimmel, April D.; Barnes, Andrew J.; Bono, Rose S. – Urban Education, 2018
Awareness of the impact of education on health remains relatively low among the public, professionals, and policy makers. Virginia Commonwealth University's Center on Society and Health sought to raise awareness among key decision makers about the impact of education on health outcomes through its Education and Health Initiative (EHI). EHI…
Descriptors: Public Health, Consciousness Raising, Research, Communication Strategies
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Person, Dawn R.; Kaveh, Haydeh; García, Yvonne; Carsey, Timothy A. – Urban Education, 2021
Urban community leaders describe their perceptions of critical issues in education and offer recommendations for the creation of a college-going culture (CGC). This qualitative study employed a maximum entropy analysis. Results demonstrate critical issues with increasing educational attainment including complexity of the urban school system,…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Urban Youth, Urban Schools, Elementary Schools
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Vasquez Heilig, Julian; Brewer, T. Jameson; Kim, Amber K.; Sanchez, Miguel – Urban Education, 2021
To analyze the counternarrative in the public discourse surrounding Teach For America (TFA), this paper represents the first digital ethnography in education policy. We conduct a qualitative analysis of Truth For America, an education policy podcast. We found four overarching themes that arose from conversations with respondents: (1) problematic…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Audio Equipment, Educational Policy, Teaching Methods
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Ippolito, John – Urban Education, 2018
In this study, I reframe the debate on minority parents and their children's educators by moving beyond concerns around student academic achievement and toward the quality of relationships among adult stakeholders. Using an interpretive lens based on Foucault's notion of "discourse," I examine three research vignettes drawn from an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Research, Educational Research, Urban Schools