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Richburg-Hayes, Lashawn – William T. Grant Foundation, 2021
In the quest to address income inequality and intergenerational poverty, it is critical to seek answers to the questions "What works?" and "For whom?" Education is a prime area in which to seek solutions, as one's level of education completed is positively correlated with income later in life. This connection contributes to a…
Descriptors: Tests, Scores, Poverty, Socioeconomic Influences
National Council of Teachers of English, 2021
Given continuing myths and misconceptions in the media and in the nation's schools about the language many African American students use, the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) believes the public deserves a statement reflective of the viewpoints of language and literacy scholars on Ebonics. The variety of Ebonics spoken by…
Descriptors: African American Students, Language Usage, Black Dialects, Negative Attitudes
Juliet Rose Kunkel – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation examines the university and institutions of schooling as technologies of power imbricated in the state violences they purport to be separate from or the solution to. I examine the logics of the university within the assemblages of policing, settlement, and empire of the U.S. state and its racial capitalist regime. I use…
Descriptors: Universities, Educational History, Genetics, Heredity
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Nash, Margaret A. – Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 2022
This study seeks to fill in a gap in the research on student experiences of campus life during the Great Depression. Based on student newspapers and yearbooks at one junior college in an agricultural region of the southwestern United States, this article examines student representations of campus life. At Riverside Junior College, particular views…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Two Year Colleges, Two Year College Students, United States History
Charles A. Holden – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This research utilized historical analysis, narrative inquiry, and oral history to document and analyze Black educational experiences in the Chapin, Dutch Fork, and Irmo communities during segregation and desegregation. Archival materials from the local school district offered insight into district leaders' attitudes towards Richlex, the only…
Descriptors: African American Students, African American Teachers, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
Anna Zeemont – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A transdisciplinary archival project, this dissertation uses counter-institutional student literacies emanating out of the City University of New York (CUNY) in the 1990s--placing them within much bigger political, educational, and geographic contexts--to think through the dynamics of ground-up resistance in the face of profound, institutionally…
Descriptors: Educational History, United States History, Resistance (Psychology), Resistance to Change
Moyer, Eric L.; Galindo, Jennifer – National Assessment Governing Board, 2023
The National Assessment Governing Board (the Board) contracted with Pearson to design and implement a review of the achievement level descriptions (ALDs) for National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Grade 8 assessments in Science, U.S. History, and Civics. This document describes the procedural and technical aspects and outcomes of the…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Student Evaluation, Grade 8, Academic Achievement
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Tefera, Adai A.; Artiles, Alfredo J.; Kramarczuk Voulgarides, Catherine; Aylward, Alexandra; Alvarado, Sarah – American Educational Research Journal, 2023
We used a situated approach to examine the aftermath of citations for racial disparities in special education and discipline. The study was conducted in one suburban school district and examined staff's interpretations and responses to multiple disproportionality citations. We found that historical, spatial, and sociocultural contexts mediated…
Descriptors: Special Education, Discipline, Disproportionate Representation, Racism
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Grant, Jonathan – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2023
Considering the ways in which class and space inform the varied experiences of Black people is essential to a more complete understanding of the African reality. Situating these constructs within the context of the Black Intellectual Tradition sheds light on the history of scholars who, for decades, have encouraged this analysis. Starting with Du…
Descriptors: Social Class, African Americans, Racism, Educational Opportunities
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Joy Ann Williamson-Lott – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
In the middle of the 20th century, trustees, elected officials, and others in the southern United States required black and white institutions to forfeit academic freedom protections when faculty research and teaching threatened to undermine white supremacy. In the early 21st century, faculty who critique white supremacy are facing similar attacks…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Democracy, Educational History, United States History
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Hurie, Andrew H.; Joseph, Tatiana – Bilingual Research Journal, 2021
Drawing from oral history interviews and archival data from a nine-month ethnography, this article examines the activist practices of foundational bilingual teachers in Milwaukee's movement to launch Spanish/English bilingual-bicultural education (BBE). We use theories of critical consciousness to interpret the educators' daily activism as crucial…
Descriptors: Activism, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Public Schools
Farag, Antony – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
In a post-truth world, it is imperative for educators to help students sift through the various views of both historical and current events. Critical race theory (CRT), a controversial theoretical framework directly critiquing white supremacy and incorporating the histories of historically marginalized communities, is a useful tool for helping…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, White Students, Critical Theory, Race
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Burgard, Karen L. B.; O'Quinn, Caroline; Boucher, Michael L., Jr.; Pinnix, Natasha; Trejo, Cynthia; Dickson, Charnae – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2021
It is difficult to overstate the power of visual images, particularly historical primary source photos, to provide a window into the past. Here, the authors outline how educators can utilize historic photos to provide students with a deeper understanding of the past. When students do not see their heritage and culture represented in images, the…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, United States History, Photography, Pictorial Stimuli
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Follari, Lissanna; Larsen, Jessi; Marquardt, Christi; Goldman, Maddie – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2021
Our 4th grade year has become known as "the field trip year", with over 10 trips carefully aligned with learning units across the year. This article describes the first trip of the year, which in many ways sets the stage for students' effective use of field trips as engaging extensions and applications of classroom learning. The Pike's…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Science Instruction, Ecology, State History
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Poza, Luis E. – Harvard Educational Review, 2021
In this essay, Luis E. Poza argues that educational dignity can help practices and reforms targeting students classified as English learners move beyond a narrow focus on programmatic and material factors related to English language development and instead toward more holistic consideration of these students and their schooling ecologies. In…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Second Language Learning, Holistic Approach, Human Dignity
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