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Donovan, Brian M. – Science Education, 2016
This field experiment manipulated the racial framing of a reading on human genetic disease to explore whether racial terminology in the biology curriculum affects how adolescents explain and respond to the racial achievement gap in American education. Carried out in a public high school in the San Francisco Bay Area, students recruited for the…
Descriptors: Field Studies, Genetics, Social Justice, Biology
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Garcia, Antero – Educational Forum, 2012
This article shares findings from a year-long study about social practices of high school youth with mobile devices during school time. In particular, this study found that students see their school time as fluidly social and academic. Educators and policy-makers need to carefully consider these social practices when preparing 21st century youth…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Handheld Devices, High School Students, Social Behavior