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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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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