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Race Tracks: Career Aspirations and Feelings of Isolation in the Mainstream Classroom
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McCardle, Todd – Education and Urban Society, 2020
Situated within scholarly research on tracking, within-school racial segregation, and student career aspirations, this qualitative study examines how three Black students in the mainstream program at a magnet high school in the Southeastern United States discussed their career aspirations. Results indicate that while each participant aspired to…
Descriptors: Occupational Aspiration, African American Students, Magnet Schools, High School Students
To Educate Engineers or to Engineer Educators?: Exploring Access to Engineering Careers
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Eastman, Michael G.; Christman, Jeanne; Zion, George H.; Yerrick, Randy – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
Although studies claim increases in underrepresented populations choosing STEM majors, barriers to retention, and higher education degree completion in STEM still exist. This study examined efforts of a prominent technical university to attract and retain urban high school graduates through a tuition scholarship program. We sought to determine the…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, STEM Education, Student Recruitment, Urban Youth
The Role of Racial Socialization in Promoting the Academic Expectations of African American Adolescents: Realities in a Post-"Brown" Era
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Trask-Tate, Angelique J.; Cunningham, Michael; Francois, Samantha – Journal of Negro Education, 2014
While segregation in public schools was found unconstitutional in the "Brown v. Board" of Education of Topeka Kansas case in 1954, many present day African American students still attend segregated schools. Within these "de facto" segregated schools, students meet challenges to educational achievement. In a sample of 160…
Descriptors: Desegregation Litigation, School Desegregation, Socialization, Public Schools
The Roadmap for Racial Equity: An Imperative for Workforce Development Advocates
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Johnson, Melissa; Bashay, Molly; Bergson-Shilcock, Amanda – National Skills Coalition, 2019
The ethnic and racial diversity of the residents of the United States of America is one of the country's unique strengths; however, Black, Latinx, Pacific Islander, Native, and certain Asian American workers face wide racial inequities in educational attainment, employment, and income. Additional workforce policies are needed now to counter…
Descriptors: Ethnic Diversity, Minority Groups, Racial Bias, Equal Education
Even More Racially Isolated than before: Problematizing the Vision for "Diversity" in a Racially Mixed High School
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Welton, Anjalé D. – Teachers College Record, 2013
Background/Context: The term racial diversity is interchangeably used in the literature with other terms such as racially mixed, integration, and desegregation in reference to policies to design and practices to implement racially heterogeneous communities, districts, and schools. Scholarship that promotes the democratic potential of racially…
Descriptors: Racial Composition, Student Diversity, Social Justice, Barriers
Evolving Cross-Group Relationships: The Story of Miller High, 1950-2000
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Eick, Caroline – Intercultural Education, 2011
This paper examines students' evolving cross-group relationships in a comprehensive high school in Baltimore County, Maryland, USA, between 1950 and 2000. The findings of this research, situated at the intersections of two lenses of inquiry: oral historical analysis and critical studies, uncover both the power of students accustomed to integrated…
Descriptors: High Schools, Democracy, School Role, Socialization