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Casanova, Carlos R.; Cammarota, Julio – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2019
This ongoing ethnographic study examines how a counter-space, La Libertad, introduces Latin@ students to a liberating pedagogy of praxis which counters dehumanization they experience in their high school. The researcher spent 180+ hours over 14 months in the field collecting data through participant observation, field notes, and personal…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Hispanic American Students, Teaching Methods, High School Students
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Moya, Jesse – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This paper presents findings from analysis of two learning sites, a classroom and a community-based youth organizing group for Latino adolescents where adult "educators" attempted to promote both critical and civic development for the participating learners. By examining the two unique learning spaces with similar youth development…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Classroom Environment, Community Organizations, Citizenship Education
Peck, Andy – Rethinking Schools, 2013
During a discussion with a panel of speakers from All of Us or None, an organization fighting for the rights of people who have been imprisoned, nearly every student in Andy Peck's senior economics class at Berkeley High School in California spoke of family members or friends who were currently locked up or formerly incarcerated, back on their…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, High School Students, Social Attitudes, Racial Bias
Bodilly, Susan J.; Augustine, Catherine H. – RAND Corporation, 2008
Arts education has been a low priority in the nation's public schools for more than 30 years. In some communities, a countermovement to this dwindling presence of arts education in the schools has developed in the form of initiatives aimed at coordinating schools, cultural institutions, community-based organizations, foundations, and/or…
Descriptors: Art Education, Cultural Centers, Public Agencies, Public Schools
de Velasco, Jorge Ruiz; McLaughlin, Milbrey – Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, 2012
California's approximately 500 continuation high schools are estimated to serve more than 115,000 California high school students each year--a number that approaches almost 10 percent of all high school students and as many as one of every seven high school seniors. Continuation schools are, however, more racially and ethnically concentrated than…
Descriptors: Continuation Students, High Schools, Public Schools, Educational Improvement
Cournoyer, David, Ed. – W. K. Kellogg Foundation, 2004
One of the priority interests of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation is to connect the knowledge and resources of institutions with communities in order to improve the quality of life in community. Partnerships achieve uncommon results. In Santa Ana, California, an unusual partnership of public schools, community college, universities, community…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Hispanic Americans, Partnerships in Education, College Preparation