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Pérez Huber, Lindsay; Camargo Gonzalez, Lorena; Solórzano, Daniel G. – Urban Education, 2023
Concerns from scholars about the exclusion of People of Color in children's literature began in the early 20th century and continues today. The lack of children's literature about People of Color is even more alarming in the contemporary moment, when Children of Color comprise a significant proportion of urban schools throughout the U.S. Only…
Descriptors: Critical Race Theory, Content Analysis, Childrens Literature, Minority Groups
Bell, Charles; Puckett, Tiffany – Urban Education, 2023
Using Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a guiding conceptual framework, this qualitative study examines black students' and parents' perceptions of school discipline and its impact on academic achievement. The findings support the notion that out-of-school suspension has a negative impact on the academic achievement of African American students and…
Descriptors: Discipline, Academic Achievement, Critical Race Theory, African American Students
Powell, Marvin G.; Frank, Toya J.; View, Jenice; Lee, Christina; Williams, Asia; Bradley, Jay – Urban Education, 2024
Black teachers experience racialized microaggressions at varying levels in their professional settings. Existing measures of these microaggressions are not context specific. We developed items following a critical quantitative research inquiry approach. Item response theory (IRT) provided validation evidence for the Teacher Experiences of…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Racism, Aggression, Measures (Individuals)
Thangaraj, Stanley Ilango – Urban Education, 2021
In this paper, I insert the importance of teaching race through Middle Eastern America and Muslim America. By bringing in critical analysis of Middle Eastern America and Muslim America, I offer theoretical insights and pedagogical strategies in the education curriculum to teach race that will deconstruct, destabilize, and interrogate the dominant…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Race, Islam, Fear
French, Kate Rollert – Urban Education, 2023
There is a growing emphasis on social justice pedagogy as a predominantly White teacher labor force infiltrates classrooms in urban schools. Using "critical race theory" (CRT)--and the construct of interest convergence--this study examines how White teachers working in an urban school apply and enact teaching for social justice during…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Whites, Urban Schools, Critical Race Theory
Lackey, Danny; Lowery, Kendra – Urban Education, 2023
This qualitative study was a critical race analysis of Advanced Placement criteria and under-enrollment of African American males in two midwestern urban high schools. Analysis of faculty interviews and documents generated four themes. AP criteria and enrollment were implemented through formal and informal practices, and key roles of individual…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Advanced Placement Programs, Enrollment
Johnson, Marcus W.; Nicol, Maureen W. – Urban Education, 2023
Social studies has been lagging in the race to gain classroom instructional time due to the impact of high-stakes testing in urban schools. Furthermore, social studies can be particularly uninteresting to Black students whose diverse sociocultural histories and perspectives remain diminished or absent. Therefore, this paper advances curricular and…
Descriptors: Social Studies, African American Students, Urban Education, Holistic Approach
Vasquez, Ramon – Urban Education, 2023
Diversifying the student body in teacher education programs (TEPs) remains an elusive goal. Despite recruiting efforts, few men of color complete programs leading to teaching credentials. To problematize this phenomenon, this study examines the experiences of three men of color enrolled in a predominantly White teacher education program (PWTEP).…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Minority Group Students, Student Diversity, Critical Race Theory
Williams, John A., III; Lewis, Chance; Starker Glass, Tehia; Butler, Bettie R.; Hoon Lim, Jae – Urban Education, 2023
School discipline disparities for African American students in urban schools continue to be a topic of contention. While research has rightfully called into question the practices and preparation of teachers and principals, the role that assistant principals serve as disciplinary gatekeepers has gone relatively unnoticed in the literature. The…
Descriptors: Discipline, Assistant Principals, Experience, Urban Schools
Allison Mattheis; Lucrecia Nava; Maria Beltran; Erick B. West – Urban Education, 2023
This study examined how the concept of social justice was operationalized in the university coursework of students enrolled in an urban teacher residency program that aims to diversify the teaching corps and prepare secondary STEM teachers for urban classroom environments. Based on analysis of 39 syllabi and interviews with nine faculty members,…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Social Justice, STEM Education, Urban Teaching
Basile, Vincent; York, Adam; Black, Ray – Urban Education, 2022
This research aims to contribute to understanding what criminalization for boys of color looks like in urban elementary school settings and to offering insights into what we must do to disrupt criminalization in urban schools. Using multiple sources of data from four elementary schools across a 2-year period, we found that boys of color in the…
Descriptors: Crime, Elementary School Students, Males, Urban Schools
Wiggan, Greg; Pass, Michelle B.; Gadd, Sonja R. – Urban Education, 2023
Using critical race structuralism (CRS), a new contribution, as well as primary and secondary data, this article explores the role of science in teaching social justice issues in urban education. In the United States, a teaching workforce, which is predominately White, middle class, and female, intersects with an increasingly diverse student…
Descriptors: Critical Race Theory, Science Education, Social Justice, Urban Education
Lin Wu – Urban Education, 2025
As tension between China and the United States continues to escalate, little research has looked into how geopolitical conflicts impact the Chinese Diasporas in these two nations. Filtering his life through empire and AsianCrit, the author illustrates his racializing encounters with empires in educational institutions and the larger Chinese and…
Descriptors: International Relations, Chinese Americans, Asian Americans, Critical Race Theory
Cisneros, Nora Alba – Urban Education, 2022
This article begins with the fundamental premise that Indigenous adolescent girls are writers. Indigenous adolescent girls speak and write in multitudes of voices, yet their physical and literary presence is often unaccounted in educational research and writing. Guided by the theoretical insights of Chicana Feminist Epistemology and Tribal…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Females, Writing (Composition), Urban Culture
McDonough, Patricia; Abrica, Elvira J. – Urban Education, 2023
Bourdieu's critical analysis of capital (BCAC) is a useful tool for unmasking how schools legitimate class structure and identifying the institutional, societal, and cultural forces that structure class reproduction and oppression. In this paper, we examine the ways educational researchers have constrained the critical application of Bourdieu's…
Descriptors: Social Class, Social Structure, Social Capital, Cultural Capital